On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:54:01AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077 > > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-10-30 10:54 ------- > No, abiword shouldn't assume that your text is UTF-8 just because you're > running in a UTF-8 locale.
Huh? That's part of the definition of a locale. Under a locale, the text encoding is the same as the terminal encoding, which is the same as the locale encoding. If the text encoding isn't the same as the terminal encoding, you can't use cat or more or grep or any other console program without recoding the output to screen. You couldn't redirect output to disk without recoding it. If the locale encoding differs from both of them, then what does it mean and why is it useful? Gettext, for one, uses the locale encoding for the terminal/text encoding. If I'm wrong, then someone please clarify, but I don't understand where you're coming from at all. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less." - "Disciple", Stuart Davis - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
