"R.I.P. Deaddog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seems utf-8 is not broken. It doesn't work just because it is using > ISO-10646-1 charset; if the input stream contains something not > belonging to UTF-8, it is 'rolled back', thus causing lost > character. Of course I can be wrong, this is just a uneducated > interpretation of less source.
sound right. > If a sane default value is needed, I'd suggest LESSCHARSET=koi8-r > instead of latin1 or utf-8, since koi8-r is very close to a 'raw' > charset -- almost any char is display as is, except control > characters. Even latin1 excludes the 0x80-0x9F range. I still > happen to remember some comment like "Mandrake is the most > iso-8859-x'ed Linux distro, but not i18n'ed". humm. i'm creating an ascii8 charset for that -- "il a ete brule au 28e degre" (the naheulbeuk witch) "c curieux, gcc fonctionne" (gwenole)
