Mats Erik Andersson: > I stumbled on an interesting phenomenon by a simple > > $ date > > In Swedish, Monday needs "aring", i.e., "0xe5" in Latin1, > and "0xc3 0xa5" with UTF-8, while Saturday and Sunday > need "odiareses", i.e., "0xf6" and "0xc3 0xb6", respecively. > > Now, in a console with ISO-8859-15, neither vowel is rendered, > while with UTF-8, they are rendered, but incorrectly. In fact, > all of "aring", "Aring", "adiareses", "Adiareses", "odiareses", > and "Odiareses" are rendered identically as a capital A with > an acute accent on top, which makes no sense in Swedish. > > These observations hold on Wheeze, so some fonts are clearly > broken there.
This works fine on my Wheezy system. This is what I see on console: $ echo -e \\xc3\\xa5 å Are you loading special fonts or something? -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
