Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice

2004-02-06 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Christian Schnobrich wrote: > part of my work is to write some plain text files [..], I have > to set the coding system of my editor to utf-8. If they're > anything else, both gedit and emacs will garble german umlauts > in the text. I use bluefish as my editor now. Very nice. UTF-8 and gtk-immo

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-05 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Don, 2004-02-05 at 05:51, Stefan Baums wrote: > > #export LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8" > > The official form of the locale name is de_DE.UTF-8. Donʼt know > whether that causes your problem. I doesn't seem to matter... I've now got it set to de_DE.UTF-8 (capitals & hyphen) which seems to work. In my

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Stefan Baums
> #export LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8" The official form of the locale name is de_DE.UTF-8. Donât know whether that causes your problem. Stefan -- Stefan Baums Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, February 05 at 2:37 AM EST Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mit, 2004-02-04 at 18:19, Shawn Lamson wrote: > >> Can you copy the output of >> #locale -a >> and >> #locale >> for us? >> Also I am no expert in locales but I think this may be your problem. > >Thanks for yo

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Mit, 2004-02-04 at 18:19, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Can you copy the output of > #locale -a > and > #locale > for us? > Also I am no expert in locales but I think this may be your problem. Thanks for your continued interest. Here it comes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale -a > bokmal > bokm?l > C

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, February 04 at 6:07 PM EST Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mit, 2004-02-04 at 16:04, Shawn Lamson wrote: > >> You could try starting OO from a shell where you are exporting the >> locale. I would check the output of locale to see what it is set to >now.> Mine is LC_CTY

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Mit, 2004-02-04 at 16:04, Shawn Lamson wrote: > You could try starting OO from a shell where you are exporting the > locale. I would check the output of locale to see what it is set to now. > Mine is LC_CTYPE="POSIX" and I don't have a problem rendering utf8... > utf8 shows up in the output of

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, February 04 at 3:27 PM EST Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >part of my work is to write some plain text files, that will later be >put to several uses by different applications. Hence the plain text. >And because I'm lazy, I like to copy'n'paste them off the WWW.

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, February 04 at 3:27 PM EST Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >part of my work is to write some plain text files, that will later be >put to several uses by different applications. Hence the plain text. >And because I'm lazy, I like to copy'n'paste them off the WWW.