On Saturday 26 October 2002 12:01 am, linda is done writ:
<snip>
> One thing I love about linux is there is always a way to do what
> you want if you keep searching and there are people willing to help
> when you hit a dead end.
Yup. People look at me weird, when I say that *nix is *fun*. But I've worked
on mainframes, and PCs, and *nix workstations/server, and *nix has the
biggest and best toolset. I can't think of the number of times, for example,
that I had to create a report, and in any other o/s it would have taken
between 4 hours and 4 days...and on *nix, I sit there for 10-15 minutes,
thinking, and then type in one looong command line...and have the report.
It's mature - the tools are there, you don' t have to make the tools to make
the tools. In *nix, it's not 'how can I do this?", it's 'of all the ways I
could do it, which way do I *want* to do it?".
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And then
From: Steve Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: two byte encoding on 8.0
Date: 25 Oct 2002 22:27:37 -0500
I just installed 8.0 on the clients in the lab at the school where I
teach computer science. Students study CS in C++ and Java, but the C++
students are highly agitated because when they start jGRASP under 8.0 it
warns them that "the default character encoding is more that one byte or
is not one to one" and then it goes on to warn them that i/o may not
<snip>
You've got the default as unicode. I've never played with it, but I *assume*
that they're running in X, so you'll want to look at your default fonts, and
if you've installed unicode support, etc.
mark
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Found during the search, in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/X11.tmpl
/* X-TrueType settings */
#ifndef HasBlindFaithInUnicode
#define HasBlindFaithInUnicode YES
#endif
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