Well I don't think mailing lists can get geekier than that.... But as always it's very well explained!
-sven On 04/01/2012 11:20 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > In http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-devel/2012-March/003881.html > Talha wrote: > >> I also noticed [...] that the minus characters in English and the >> Turkish translations are different. The former uses "-" while the >> latter uses "-". > > The minus sign in gretl output is represented in one of two ways: > the "dumb" way is to use ASCII 0x2d (all-purpose hyphen or dash) and > the "smart" way is to use the Unicode minus sign (U+2212). > > We use the smart way if the locale character set is UTF-8 and the > selected font supports U+2212. If you're not seeing a proper minus > sign in Turkish output, that's probably because your locale > character set is ISO-8859-9 rather than UTF-8. You should be able to > fix that with > > sudo localedef -i tr_TR -f UTF-8 tr_TR > > (I see the correct minus in Turkish gretl on Linux.) > > Allin > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-devel mailing list > Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel
