Hi Steven! The problem is that if I use the iso8859-1 charset I won't be able to read the greek messages that my friends send me ;-) I am from Greece so I have to use iso8859-7 to read greek but then when someone writes some german or french characters with accents I get some greek letters in their words/names. These characters may also appear in filenames. Following the howto that is on the link that I posted I managed to have a Unicode console that can show up to 100+ languages with the appropriate font :-) This is something that I'd like to see in every app and it isn't that difficult to use as a simple user or to code if you are a developer. Most GTK2/QT apps support Unicode. Interested yet? Imagine that using Unicode everything you write in an email will stay the same on the other end of the line as there will be no charset convertion. Also you can have multilingual emails/documents with a combination of English/Japanese/Thai/Hebrew in plain text!!! Even math symbols! I think that it deserves some testing don't you ;-)
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:49:29 -0500 Steven Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 28 July 2003 06:50, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: > > Being sick and tired of seeing strange characters all over the > > place > > in documents, I have taken the decision to convert my whole system > > to use unicode for character encoding. Has anybody else done that > > before? I have found a page on the Internet that explains some stuff > > but any help is welcome! This is the link: > > > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html > > > > Are there any problems using unicode? Most libraries nowadays > > support > > UTF-8 and most programs are converted to use it. Maybe creating a > > HOWTO would be a nice idea (if it doesn't already exist) adding a > > list at the end of applications that support UTF-8. Thanks in > > advance! > > I make it a habit to set the environment variable LANG to en_US in > '/etc/env.d/00basic'. LANG determines which locale to use and in the > case of en_US uses iso8859-1 to display characters. en_US allows me > to view en, em, vulgar fractions, letters with accents, etc. (man > iso_8859_1). > > Your current locale settings can be determined by running locale. If > LANG is set to POSIX (the default) then only the ASCII character set > is used (man ascii). > > The command locale does not have a man or info page so use 'locale > --help' to get a listing of options. > > locale comes with the GNU libc6 C library (sys-libs/glibc). > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
