Hi,
> On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 12:50:25 +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Who said Debian has moved completely to UTF-8 ?
> > man, aptitude
> > I thought these are not UTF ready. See BTS.
> >
> > I wish these were. So if you do, you need multiple locales.
> >
> > I suggest creating custom meny fo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederick B. Henry Jr.) writes:
> As a final minor issue, not critical for me by any means, when I use a
> working pager like less to view the UTF-8-demon.txt file, the only text
> that gives a problem (boxes) is Amharic Ethiopian.
Same here. It seems the X11 fonts do not (yet
On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 10:52:28 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2004-10-01 22:52:49 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
> > I note some differences with your output...just not sure how to
> > interpret them. :(
>
> It seems to be OK. You have the ASCII hyphen, and the correct UTF-8
> sequenc
On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 12:43:08 +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> If you type
>
> PAGER=cat man cat
>
> do you see a coypright symbol in the "Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software
> Foundation, Inc." line (i.e., in the place where I have written "(C)"
> here)? If you type
>
> printf \\302\\251
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:03:49AM -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Context: Debian unstable. I have the ucs fonts package installed, as well
> as several classical polytonic Greek fonts, which render very well in
> Mozilla Firefox. I can start an xterm thusly:
...
> S
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederick B. Henry Jr.) writes:
> I note some differences with your output...just not sure how to
> interpret them. :(
They are likely not to be significant; you just seem to have a different
version of the man page.
If you type
PAGER=cat man cat
do you see a coypright s
On 2004-10-01 22:52:49 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
> I note some differences with your output...just not sure how to
> interpret them. :(
It seems to be OK. You have the ASCII hyphen, and the correct UTF-8
sequence for the copyright symbol. If you do "man cat" and look at
the COPYRIGHT se
On 2004-09-30 10:18:45 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday 30 Sep 2004 16:39:20 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > It may be a problem with your terminal. I've attached a small file
> > containing characters in UTF-8. Could you save it and cat it in your
> > terminal to see if there a
On Friday 01 Oct 2004 01:54:19 +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederick B. Henry Jr.) writes:
>
> > Context: Debian unstable. [...] Since switching my locale to
> > en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locales),
>
> I think "dpkg-reconfigure locales" takes of that, but just to be sur
On Friday 01 Oct 2004 01:52:13 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.01.0135 +0200]:
> > > On Thursday 30 September 2004 13:03, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
> > >> Greetings,
> > >> Since switching my locale to en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederick B. Henry Jr.) writes:
> Context: Debian unstable. [...] Since switching my locale to
> en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locales),
I think "dpkg-reconfigure locales" takes of that, but just to be sure,
could you verify that /etc/locale.gen contains a line
en_US.UTF-8 U
also sprach Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.01.0135 +0200]:
> > On Thursday 30 September 2004 13:03, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >> Since switching my locale to en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locales),
> >> whenever I use any pager (more, less, most) to read a man pag
Arne GÃtje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thursday 30 September 2004 13:03, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> Since switching my locale to en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locales),
>> whenever I use any pager (more, less, most) to read a man page I get
>> strange chars, e.g.:
>
> AFAI
On Thursday 30 Sep 2004 16:39:20 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2004-09-30 08:54:01 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
> > Another solution which someone was kind enough to send me was to set
> > LC_ALL to "C" before every invocation of "man", which works, but
> > seems kludgy.
>
> This jus
On 2004-09-30 08:54:01 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
> Another solution which someone was kind enough to send me was to set
> LC_ALL to "C" before every invocation of "man", which works, but
> seems kludgy.
This just deactivates non-ASCII characters, which should be replaced
by ASCII charac
On Thursday 30 Sep 2004 09:39:50 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> In an UTF-8 sequence, you shouldn't have a ^P; this is strange.
> Now, Debian doesn't use the non-ASCII hyphen to make searching in
> man pages easier (see /etc/groff/man.local). So, this seems to be
> a bug in the procmailrc page (o
On 2004-09-30 00:03:49 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
> Since switching my locale to en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locales),
> whenever I use any pager (more, less, most) to read a man page I get
> strange chars, e.g.:
>
> man procmailrc (PAGER=/usr/bin/most) yields:
>
> "delivering and [E
On Thursday 30 Sep 2004 15:06:56 +0800, Arne G?tje (?) wrote:
> AFAIK, 'man' does not support UTF-8. Bad luck. :)
>
> Take a look here when the page is online again.
>
> http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu
Thanks Arne,
I'll save the url. Ironic, given the intent of unicode, that man pages
On Thursday 30 September 2004 13:03, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
> Greetings,
> Since switching my locale to en_US.UTF-8 (dpkg-reconfigure locales),
> whenever I use any pager (more, less, most) to read a man page I get
> strange chars, e.g.:
AFAIK, 'man' does not support UTF-8. Bad luck. :)
Ta
On Thursday 30 Sep 2004 08:43:40 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:03:49 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr.
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Context: Debian unstable. I have the ucs fonts package installed, as well
> > as several classical polytonic Greek fonts, which render
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:03:49 -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Context: Debian unstable. I have the ucs fonts package installed, as well
> as several classical polytonic Greek fonts, which render very well in
> Mozilla Firefox. I can start an xterm thusly:
Greetings,
Context: Debian unstable. I have the ucs fonts package installed, as well
as several classical polytonic Greek fonts, which render very well in
Mozilla Firefox. I can start an xterm thusly:
xterm -u8 -fn \
'-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'
It displa
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