On 2002-07-06 at 16:15 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote: > > OK, now I have to admit to being a bit confused <grin>. > > Surely what we want is for the accents etc. to be output > > correctly both on the screen when using --credits and in > > the AUTHORS file? Which will be the same thing in most > > cases, right? My question is how to get the UTF-8 encoding > > to print out the correct characters from the ASCII > > character set (see the current output of --credits to see > > what I mean). Or am I missing the point of all of this > > UTF-8 stuff totally? > > I don't see any problems with the ASCII characters in the > output. Only the non-ASCII chars in Cyrille's and Hubert's > names look funny. There may not be a single locale that > would be able to display them all (except if you consider > UTF-8/Unicode a locale). When I run the output through PAPS, > I do get the right chars. Note that ASCII doesn't contain � > or �, you're probably thinking of Latin-1. That output is > just the way it should be, blame the xterm writers for not > udnerstanding UTF-8.
Those were the problems I was referring to :). I think I was getting mixed up with my terminology: I see your point and I think I understand. I won't worry about it too much then. I was thinking of old-fashoned ANSI (255 chars) --- I have to admit I have no idea how this maps onto character sets these days, though I think what I'm thinking of basically is Latin-1. That's the same as ISO 8859-1, right? In fact, the more I think about this, the more I get confused. I can't seem to find any good introduction/references to all this stuff on the web. Does anyone know where I can go to learn more about character sets etc. these days? I will leave the output as it is, write the AUTHORS dependency etc., and then the bug can be closed. Ta, Andrew. -- Andrew Ferrier email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.new-destiny.co.uk/andrew/ _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
