On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 05:49, Steven Elling wrote: > 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).
for having utf-8 in most of applications, you have to switch to an utf-8 locale... i do it with the following: 1. 'generate' the required locale.. i use the following command: "localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8" 2. then i switch to it in /etc/profile (/etc/env.d/00basic gets overwritten sometimes by portage) export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 gabor -- "Don't worry. I used the back of my sword. Oh, it's double-sided. Sorry." -Zelgadis, Slayers
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