On Monday 28 July 2003 06:50, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: > Being sick and tired of seeing strange characters all over the place > in documents, I have taken the decision to convert my whole system to > use unicode for character encoding. Has anybody else done that before? I > have found a page on the Internet that explains some stuff but any help > is welcome! This is the link: > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html > > Are there any problems using unicode? Most libraries nowadays support > UTF-8 and most programs are converted to use it. Maybe creating a HOWTO > would be a nice idea (if it doesn't already exist) adding a list at > the end of applications that support UTF-8. Thanks in advance!
I make it a habit to set the environment variable LANG to en_US in '/etc/env.d/00basic'. LANG determines which locale to use and in the case of en_US uses iso8859-1 to display characters. en_US allows me to view en, em, vulgar fractions, letters with accents, etc. (man iso_8859_1). Your current locale settings can be determined by running locale. If LANG is set to POSIX (the default) then only the ASCII character set is used (man ascii). The command locale does not have a man or info page so use 'locale --help' to get a listing of options. locale comes with the GNU libc6 C library (sys-libs/glibc). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
