Note: I've kept the message in entire in my reply since it was only sent to me, and I suppose it should have been sent to the list also. My answer is at the bottom.
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 19:47, Diego SANTA CRUZ wrote: > On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 00:17, Janus Christensen wrote: > > On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 14:51, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > > > Further, I'm unable to type the Euro character in the body compose > > > window. Why is that? > > > > If I want to type an Euro character I use AltGr + e. > > > > Here are my observations with Evo 1.0 on a RedHat 7.2 with a 2.4.17 > > kernel: > > > > Same config here. > > > * It works in the To: and Cc: fields. > > Same for me, it always appears to work. > > > * Sometimes it works in the Subject: field sometimes not - an 'e' > > character is typed instead. This seems related to AltGr not working some > > of the time (in Evolution and the subject only), so if I want to type a > > '[' character in the subject I get an '8' because AltGr + 8 is the > > key-combo for '['. > > Same for me. If I go straight to the subject line it always works. If I > type something in To: and/or CC: it usually stops working (but not > always). And as you it AltGr that stops working, no othet AltGr ker > combo works in subject: > > > * I cannot type a Euro sign in the body at all. Weirdly I can type '[' > > and other characters for which I have to use the AltGr key all the time > > with no problems, so this seems to be a different issue than in the > > subject field. > > > > Same for me here. However, I managed to find a workaround :-) > > I finally managed to get the Euro sign working in the compose window > (and in most other X apps, GTK or Xt). The problem appears to be that if > the LANG variable is set to some locale that uses iso-8859-1 instead of > iso-8859-15 (e.g., en_US), no Euro can be typed, even if the character > set in the compose window is set to iso-8859-15. BTW, this is also the > case with any other app (e.g. xterm). I would say that this is a bug in > glibc locale definitions. The only english locale based on iso-8859-15 > that I could find is en_IE@euro (Ireland), so I changed to that (i.e. > LANG=en_IE@euro) and now I can type the Euro sign even though I'm using > english :-) That sounds very interesting. I'll try it out next thing. > I guess that the glibc locale definitions should use iso-8859-15 > wherever iso-8859-1 is used. Yes, I wonder if the the iso-8859-1 character set should not be considered deprecated. Is there anyone out there who knows what the "legal status", so to speak, of this character set is? -- Janus Christensen ______________________________________________________ I want something that'll give me the stamina of a young werewolf, the vision of a shaman, the thoughts of a serial killer and the gentleness of a hungry vampire bat. -- Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan
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