Carlos Laviola, le Sat 02 Oct 2004 02:07:11 -0300, a écrit :
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:18:17PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > For supported types, use locale settings to determine input type;
> > ie. LANG=en_US.utf-8 makes the default encoding UTF8.  Add a control
> > type to force multibyte=0 (ie. to disable this behavior.)  This will
> > let figlet have standard behavior for UTF8, instead of
> > application-specific behavior.
> 
> I understand what you mean, but could you give me an example on
> situations where this could be useful?

echo é | figlet

should just work whatever the locale. For now, it displays é, which is
not precisely what the user expects :)

> I just don't really
> know what you're trying to do, since I use en_US.UTF-8 as a locale
> myself and have never ran into problems with figlet.

That's probably because thanks to your language you never had to type
anything else but ASCII.

Samuel



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