On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 05:39:57PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:19:15PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > However it is resolved, it seems to me that these things should "just > > work" out of the box. > > I agree, of course. The problem is that for that to happen, all > text must be either: > > - in Unicode > - in some way encoding-tagged, if only implicitly by the current > locale (though relying on the locale is very very fragile) Touch�. > For plain text files, often they don't qualify. A historical screwup > we'll get fixed someday... I should have mentioned originally that I have a locale defined that uses ISO-8859-1 character set: I put "en_CA ISO-8859-1" in /etc/locale.gen and ran locale-gen. Setting LC_CTYPE=en_CA doesn't change the output of "man iso-8859-1". -S
