Re: Locale in 1.1?
Yves Arrouye writes: > The fact that nvi (does not) displays diacritic characters has nothing > to do with the fonts, just to what isprint() returns. I had it work > under Linux using a Slackware 3.0 distribution. Plain Slackware? I thought my Slackware would do that too until I discoverd that tcsh in Slackware is ocmpiled to simulate NLS. > typing diacritic characters tells they are not printable with LANG set > to ISO-8859-1 :-( Is it a bug in the libc5 used with 1.1? A bug with > me? In any case, it's annoying... It's not a bug. You simply don't have the locale installed. It works fine for me since I installed the Gemrman NLS. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ | ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux!| //_/ /_/ //\___/_/ //
Re: Locale in 1.1?
On Thu, 9 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote: > The fact that nvi (does not) displays diacritic characters has nothing > to do with the fonts, just to what isprint() returns. I had it work > under Linux using a Slackware 3.0 distribution. [snip] > typing diacritic characters tells they are not printable with LANG set > to ISO-8859-1 :-( Is it a bug in the libc5 used with 1.1? A bug with > me? In any case, it's annoying... Errm... What you care about is LC_CTYPE (character set), not LANG (language), methinks. Anyhow... I've compiled my own fr_CA locale file. If you're interested just e-mail me and I'll send you a copy. After that doing "setenv LC_CTYPE fr_CA" will make nvi happy... assuming it calls setlocale() somewhere. (I did a small test similar to yours and it worked iff I did a call to setlocale().) I'll probably do a set of Debian packages for locale support at some point in the future... After I've done all the other stuff I have to do. Christian
Re: Locale in 1.1?
J. H. M. Dassen writes:
> [Please fix your return address: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is incomplete]
I know. Sorry, my dns domain name was not set. Should be okay now.
> > I'd like to have some info about locale handling in Debian. The
> > /usr/lib/locale directory has just an emty dir en_GB in it.
> >
> > I tried to set LANG to fr_FR or ISO-8859-1 (which Linux should
> > support) but nvi still does not display diacritic characters (I had it
> > display them on a Slackware with ISO-8859-1). How can I correct that?
>
> AFAIK the locale support doesn't set your display font.
> Perhaps you need to do a setfont with one of the iso* fonts in
> /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts ?
The fact that nvi (does not) displays diacritic characters has nothing
to do with the fonts, just to what isprint() returns. I had it work
under Linux using a Slackware 3.0 distribution.
Doing a little test:
#include
#include
#include
main() {
int c;
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
if (c == '\n') continue;
printf("0x%02d: %d\n", c, isprint(c));
}
}
typing diacritic characters tells they are not printable with LANG set
to ISO-8859-1 :-( Is it a bug in the libc5 used with 1.1? A bug with
me? In any case, it's annoying...
Yves.
Re: Locale in 1.1?
[Please fix your return address: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is incomplete] > I'd like to have some info about locale handling in Debian. The > /usr/lib/locale directory has just an emty dir en_GB in it. > > I tried to set LANG to fr_FR or ISO-8859-1 (which Linux should > support) but nvi still does not display diacritic characters (I had it > display them on a Slackware with ISO-8859-1). How can I correct that? AFAIK the locale support doesn't set your display font. Perhaps you need to do a setfont with one of the iso* fonts in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts ? Ray
Locale in 1.1?
Hello, I'd like to have some info about locale handling in Debian. The /usr/lib/locale directory has just an emty dir en_GB in it. I tried to set LANG to fr_FR or ISO-8859-1 (which Linux should support) but nvi still does not display diacritic characters (I had it display them on a Slackware with ISO-8859-1). How can I correct that? Thanks for any help, Yves.
