Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-16 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
>--[Tom]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:05:38PM -0700, Tom wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:40:09PM +0200, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > > > 100 DM = 51 ? 13 ¢. > > My /etc/environment is now: LANG=en_US, and 'locale' says "en_US" for > > everthing except LC_ALL wh

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-15 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:28, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > If you're in an UTF8 environment, you guarantee that all files on your > system are encoded in UTF8. All I was saying is that any program that > imports a file into your filesystem that's no

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-15 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:38, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > Not "will try", but "does try". It still has some issues, in particular > the fact that if you have some broken font installed it is now even > harder to figure out which font is the culprit

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-15 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:05:38PM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:40:09PM +0200, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > [snip] > > 100 DM = 51 ? 13 ¢. > > My /etc/environment is now: LANG=en_US, and 'locale' says "en_US" for > everthing except LC_ALL which is blank. So things like

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-15 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:40:09PM +0200, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: [snip] > 100 DM = 51 ? 13 ¢. My /etc/environment is now: LANG=en_US, and 'locale' says "en_US" for everthing except LC_ALL which is blank. So things like ½,é,¢ are working, but what I guess is the Euro symbol in Rüdige

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-15 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
>--[Arne Goetje]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > AFAIK KDE3 will try to interpolate the fonts to display glyphs which are > not actually encoded in the font. BUt I don't know how this works and if > the international xfont packages have something to do with it. Not "will try", but "does try". It still ha

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-15 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
>--[Arne Goetje]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 20:40, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > > >--[Arne Goetje]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Also keep in mind that especially asian people do not use UTF8 as > > > encoding but their local one (SJIS, Big5, GB2312, etc.). These ones are > > > no

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-14 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 October 2003 20:40, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > >--[Arne Goetje]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 15:03, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:58, Tom wrote: > > > > Also keep in mind that especially a

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-14 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
>--[Arne Goetje]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 15:03, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:58, Tom wrote: > Also keep in mind that especially asian people do not use UTF8 as encoding > but their local one (SJIS, Big5, GB2312, etc.). These ones are not > compati

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-14 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
>--[Colin Watson]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Beware of /etc/environment, though. It's really a configuration file for > pam_env. I think it should be used extremely sparingly; much better to > change things in your personal shell startup files. Why? If a user says de_DE.UTF-8 upon install, then that