> UTF8 supports even klingon, so I'm pretty sure it supports your characters. > First make sure, that your text is actually UTF8. For example: Open the > text in mozilla and set character encoding to UTF8. > Then make sure your font supports all needed languages. Open the text in > gedit and choose a suitable font. > Thanks for that tip, it quickly allowed me to learn that in fact the files were not UTF8 but iso8859-1. If GTK2 had OBEYED $LANG setting it to "C" should have worked, but it hadn't so it didn't :)
Anyway, knowing now what I was dealing with, I fired up iconv, and converted all the files quickly, rebuilt the tarballs, and tested, took five minutes, all languages now working as advertised. Thanks guys. Ciao A.J. PS. If anybody's up for contributing more languages, it only takes about an hour and I know this because I did the Afrikaans translation myself and my fiance did Brazilian Portoguese, mail me off-list. It's free software and an hour of your tiime means your countrymen can later install the system using their mothertongue. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International http://www.getopenlab.com http://www.silentcoder.co.za _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
