Thanks for the answer. Sorry about the Swedish, hi. U have all the characters in Linux
working fine, but not in the ax25programs. I feels funny to use english all the time.
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Fr�n: Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Skickat: den 16 juli 2000 12:09
�mne: Re: Swedish characters? (Svenska tecken?)
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 11:31:25AM +0200, RYDBERG STEFAN wrote:
> > �r det n�gon som vet hur jag f�r svenska tecken i call? Har svenska
> > tecken �verallt annars. K�r nu RedHat men har �ven SuSE. Samma i b�gge.
> > Stefan / SM7TIX
>
> This forum is by default in english, so I prefer to answer in that.
>
> You can get "swedish" characters (8 bit characters in general) thru
> on message contents, but not on AX25 link addresses.
>
> An issue might be that some other nodes/users might use MSDOS with its
> own "interesting" set of "nationalized" characters, which codepoints
> don't match those of ISO-8859-1, after all..
> So while you transmit your swedish chars, codes for them are not the
> same as those used by some other people, and vice versa.
>
> Applications don't usually manage translations from user character set
> to some canonic set on wire/air -- see irc-II, which has such facility.
>
> Another is that some applications are written a bit poorly, and don't
> let 8-bit chars thru from keyboard to them, but that should not be
> considered as a *permanent* obstacle. Try to find the software
> author(s) to make them aware of the need for 8-bit transparent
> operation, so that you can then transmit e.g. ISO-8859-1 characters
> thru them.
>
> /Matti Aarnio - OH2MQK
