On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:44:49PM +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:17:32PM +0200, Fredrik Jervfors wrote: > > > If Y's computer supports the encoding X used [...] > > Yes, I assumed in my examples that both computers support both encodings. > Glibc supports all well-known 8-bit character sets since 2.1 (released in > 1999), Unicode and its transcripts since 2.2 (2000). Fonts are also > installed on any sane system.
You mean the iconv in glibc? > > I think clipboards treat the data as bytes, > > Try copy-pasting from a latin1 application to an utf8 app or vice versa and > you'll see that luckily it's not the case. You'll get the same letters (i.e. > different byte sequences) in the two apps. But it doesn’t work the other way around. I’ve tried pasting from an app respecting locale (UTF-8) into rxvt (with its head stuck in the Latin-1 sand, no not urxvt) and the bytes of the UTF-8 get interpreted as Latin-1 characters. :) It should work, but Latin-1-oriented apps are usually dumb enough that it doesn’t... Rich -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
