Re: Letters d L l and t with caron

2001-10-25 Thread Darren Morby
G. Adam Stanislav wrote on October 23: Slovak texts always prefer the apostrophe form for d, t, l, and L. We only use the other form (the one that looks like a raised v) when we use typewriters that do not have the apostrophe form but do have the caron, or when we write by hand (it somehow

RE: Character encoding at the prompt

2001-10-25 Thread Richard, Francois M
As a follow-up on this interesting issue, I did the following testing on Solaris 2.6: setenv LC_ALL en_US env LC_ALL=it.UTF-8 date giovedì, 25 ottobre 2001, 11:45:24 EDT This worked properly since Thursday is actually: giovedì in Italian and ì is U+00EC encoded as C3 AC (hexa) in Utf-8. These

Re: Letters d L l and t with caron

2001-10-25 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
At 11:40 2001-10-25 -0400, Darren Morby wrote: Thank you; this is the clarification I was seeking. Now when our testers complain that this character looks wrong I am justified in saying it's a typographical variant ... at least for these letters. You're welcome. I also have a page about Slovak

RE: Character encoding at the prompt

2001-10-25 Thread Yves Arrouye
But: setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8 env LC_ALL=it echo giovedì, 25 ottobre 2001, 11:45:24 EDT I could not understand why I get the display of the letter ì in the en_US.UTF-8 Locale. My understanding was that the date command was generating the message in the Italian locale (default encoding

Re: Character encoding at the prompt

2001-10-25 Thread Markus Scherer
On the DOS prompt of Windows NT4/2000/XP, you should be able to get 16-bit Unicode with chcp 1. markus

Re: Character encoding at the prompt

2001-10-25 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:34:12PM -0400, Richard, Francois M wrote: I could not understand why I get the display of the letter ì in the en_US.UTF-8 Locale. My understanding was that the date command was generating the message in the Italian locale (default encoding iso-8859-1) and as a

Re: Character encoding at the prompt

2001-10-25 Thread Jungshik Shin
Richard, Francois M wrote: As a follow-up on this interesting issue, I did the following testing on Solaris 2.6: setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8 env LC_ALL=it echo giovedì, 25 ottobre 2001, 11:45:24 EDT I could not understand why I get the display of the letter ì in the en_US.UTF-8 Locale.