On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:39:57AM +0100, Stewart Jeacocke wrote: > On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 19:26 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > The problem is that you are not using a UTF-8 (Unicode) system locale. > > > Run > > > > > > # pkg-reconfigure locales > > > > > > and select a Unicode locale (eg en_GB.UTF-8) as the default system > > > locale. Log out of GNOME and log back in. > > > > Yeah, OK, thanks, that seems to explain the symptoms. As a practical > > problem, it seems that most of the email and newgroups I see are using > > iso-8859-1, so that's the only thing that seems to work as a default > > encoding for my terminal. > > I'm pretty sure that iso-8859-1 encoding is a subset of the Unicode > encoding. So even when the locale is set to a Unicode encoding > iso-8859-1 (extended ASCI) documents should still work fine (they seem > to here). > > If they really don't then would you attach an example file that contains > characters that fail to render with a Unicode locale?
None of these: e with an acute accent: "é" e with a grace accent: "è" c with a cedille: "ç" show up if I choose UTF-8 in gnome-terminal. iso-8859-1 may be a subset of unicode in the sense that all the characters it encodes are also in unicode, but I don't believe that the iso-8859-1 encoding is a subset of UTF-8. I'm far from an expert on this, though.... --b. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
