On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:09:10AM +0100, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:16:18AM -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
> > Olivier Chapuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:41:39PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have multibyte enabled.
> > > > With the latest CVS I get this warning:
> > > >
> > > > [FVWM][FInitCharset]: WARN -- Cannot get charset with CHARSET env
> > > > variable
> > > >
> > > > Where do I find the documentation on this env variable?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hum, I do not know if there is a documentation somewhere. This variable
> > > is used by some programs in the gnu world to get the charset associated
> > > to your locale if your libc does not have nl_langinfo which can do the
> > > job (it seems that you do not have nl_langinfo). It can also be used to
> > > override the charset returned by nl_langinfo.
> > > Now, it is not used in mb support but in the ewmh support for iconv
> > > conversion from/to UTF-8 and your charset. If you have iconv
> > > you can get the list of charsets by using "iconv --list".
> > > There are multiple problems here:
> > >
> > > 1 - FInitCharset is run by fvwm even if you do not have iconv
> > > support (easy to fix).
> > > 2 - nl_langinfo may return a different charset than the "X charset".
> > > 3 - iconv is not an X function.
> > >
> > > So nl_langinfo and iconv should not be used :o) but it does not
> > > seem that there are obvious (portable) replacement (XFree >=4.0.2
> > > has some Xutf8 functions, we may try to use if available).
> > > I will try to fix these problems progressively. I begin to understand
> > > the X i18n stuff. Any way these problems are small and these concern
> > > only applications with ewmh support (but these should be fixed).
> >
> > I looked at the various codesets iconv supports to try to figure out
> > a default value.
> >
>
> Where do you find such information? I currently try to find some
> info on locale stuff on various unix.
>
> > It looks like if CHARSET is not set, is should default to ISO_8859-1
> > (on Linux).
> >
> > On Solaris and AIX, the default should be ISO8859-1.
> >
> > On HPUX, it looks like it should be either "amere", "iso81", or "engle".
> >
>
> Strange, it seems that on HPUX the charset associated to a locale
> (value returned by nl_langinfo) can be: iso88591, ..., iso885915,
> roman8, arabic8, ..., kana8, tis620, big5, eucJP, eucKR, eucTW, hp15CN,
> SJIS, utf8". So iconv on HPUX does not use its own charset ?!?
>
Ah ok, amere ~ american_e and iso81 ~ iso88591 for HPUX iconv
("only the first four and the last letter are used").
Do HPUX iconv support "utf-8" ?
Olivier
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