Lars Tunkrans wrote: > Well , Here in Sweden we have about ten characters like ÄÖÅÉÜ äöåéü > thats used in standard typed text in swedish > these characters have the eight bit in the byte turned on in the code , > ie. their value is above 127 decimal or 80 hex. > Most non-english languages have a small set of so called accented > characters that does not fit in the lower half of the codeset > > During the history of operatingsystems "made in english" there has > always been smart bright university students that creates these > marvellous new piecies of code that works very well in english, but is > almost unusable/unsellable anywhere else . > > Whats most surprising really, is that I have never heard of an operating > system written in any other language than English. and I have been > the computer support business for 28 years by now. > > Anyway, looking at this > > http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/HP052579281033.aspx > > it becomes evident that the hebrew characters are mapped from hex E0 to > FA in codepage 1255 in windows. > > > I tried creating a file on a USB mem in VISTA64 and I named the file " > räksmörgås.txt " > I then moved the USB mem to Solaris Express CE build 90 and the file > name looks like : > > /media/MEMSTICK/räksmörgÃ¥s.txt > > > So even if the filename is somewhat reminiscent of the original its > quite unreadable. > So this is an internationalisation bug in solaris. thanks to the smart > bright english university students > that were never forced to learn any additional languages. > > So this bug is not only a Hebrew problem , it hits all non-english > languages in various impact depending on the number of > characters above hex 80 in the codepage, > > > Someone on the list reported that this was solved in SXCE/OpenSolaris , > I belive I just demonstrated that its not. > If there is not a formal bug report on this we need to create one.
Lars, was there anything particularly bad about the shrimps on that sandwich or did you just forget to turn on UTF-8? _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
