On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 21:01, Janus Christensen wrote: > 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. >
Ouups! I was certain I had sent it to the mailing-list. Thanks for forwarding it. > > 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? > Hmmm. Good question. This page http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin9.html explains which chars are different between iso-8859-1 and -15. I've already seen some slight problems with applications (e.g. Sawfish in some help texts) that use the acute accent instead of the apostrophe (now I get the capital Z with caron, instead of something resembling an apostrophe). However, it is those apps which are broken. > -- > 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 > -- ------------------------------------------------------- Diego Santa Cruz PhD. student Publications available at http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) EPFL - DE - LTS, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +41 - 21 - 693 26 57 Fax: +41 - 21 - 693 76 00 ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
