Le ven, sep 14, 2001, � 04:13:31 +0900, Junichi Uekawa a �crit:
> On a very different topic, I cannot even type in
> franc,ais in my system, and it seems to be a character not available
> in the default locale which is C.
C does not specify a charset outside ASCII, does it ? On my system, with
LC_ALL=C, I surely can type and display whatever glyph is in 8859-1. What
does your system, with LC_ALL=C, do with characters above 127 ? (and how
does it display characters under 128 ? <sigh>Romaji</sigh> ?)
> How are people meant to handle this?
Drop outdated, region-specific encodings and switch all to a united one.
In gdm's case, the specific problem of displaying "fran�ais" on an Asian box
(or, for what it's worth, displaying the word "Nihongo" in one of its original
scripts on an European box) has a solution not very far ahead.
(by the way, does the line mutt added at the very beginning of this post
display completely on your screen ?)
-- Cyrille
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Grumpf.
