Re: [Mono-list] MacOS X Charset

[John Duncan]

All nice and good, but the charset is not being reported as "en_US.ISO8859-1" like it would be on other operating systems. If you have a better idea about how to get the Mac OS X system to report the charset instead of the locale, i'm all ears. I'll send some info to the fink people in charge of glib and gettext.

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 07:14 PM, Ram Viswanadha wrote:

Um, pertaining to that charset thing. If you want a permanent solution,
put this in your charset.alias file (fink puts it at
/sw/etc/charset.alias)

No. This is wrong.
Locale != Charset. Please do not confuse both. Locale provides cultural
sensitive information such as day names, month names, etc. Charset provides
a mapping along with an algorithm to bytes to glyphs.
en_US is a Locale and UTF-8 is a Charset.
Please do not modify charset.alias, charset.alias provides a mapping between
the canonical name of a converter to its alias for iconv.

Instead a better way to deal the problem is to set
LC_ALL or LANG en_US.UTF-8

For more information on locale naming conventions please see:
http://www.li18nux.org/localenameguide/index.html

Regards,

Ram
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Ram Viswanadha
International Components For Unicode
GCoC San Jose
IBM
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Well, you could do "en_US ISO-8859-1"

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 05:28 PM, Gonzalo Paniagua Javier
wrote:

El mi�, 22-01-2003 a las 22:28, John Duncan escribi�:

Um, pertaining to that charset thing. If you want a permanent solution,
put this in your charset.alias file (fink puts it at
/sw/etc/charset.alias)

en_US UTF-8

That doesn't seem a good solution 'cause you won't get correct en_US.
Try "en_US en" or "en_US latin1" or something like that.

-Gonzalo


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