> On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > By the way, I just gave lv a try: apt-get installed it, used it on a > UTF-8 textfile containing Japanese, and I'm seeing garbage. It looks > like it's stripping off the high bits of each byte and printing it as > ASCII. I had to play around with switches to get it to display; apparently > it ignores the locale. Very poor. Less, on the other hand, displays > it without having to play games. It has some problems with double-width > characters, unfortunately.
Being also previously unacquainted with "lv", I also just installed "lv" and tried running it inside "mlterm" with LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 on a data file containing place names in many scripts (Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Greek, Russian, Arabic, etc.) and it all looks like garbage for me too! So for me neither "less" nor "lv" works (on my SuSE 7.2 installation). Of course, "vim" works just fine : the only problem with "vim" is that it won't read from stdin the way "less" does. "more" also works just fine, so I wonder what the problem with "less" is? -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
