Asmus Freytag wrote:
>
> At 06:32 PM 10/24/01 -0500, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
> >The first time I encountered the term "caron" was in the eighties when
> >studying the design of Adobe PostScript fonts. Not being a native English
> >speaker, I simply took it for the English word for this diacritic
G. Adam Stanislav wrote on October 23:
> Slovak texts always prefer
> the "apostrophe" form for d, t, l, and L. We only use the other form
> (the one that looks like a raised v) when we use typewriters that do not
> have the "apostrophe" form but do have the caron, or when we write by
> hand (it
As a follow-up on this interesting issue, I did the following testing on
Solaris 2.6:
>setenv LC_ALL en_US
>env LC_ALL=it.UTF-8 date
giovedì, 25 ottobre 2001, 11:45:24 EDT
This worked properly since Thursday is actually: giovedì in Italian and ì is
U+00EC encoded as C3 AC (hexa) in Utf-8.
These
At 11:40 2001-10-25 -0400, Darren Morby wrote:
>Thank you; this is the clarification I was seeking. Now when our
>testers complain that "this character looks wrong" I am justified
>in saying "it's a typographical variant" ... at least for these
>letters.
You're welcome. I also have a page about
> But:
> >setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
> >env LC_ALL=it echo
> giovedì, 25 ottobre 2001, 11:45:24 EDT
>
> I could not understand why I get the display of the letter ì in the
> en_US.UTF-8 Locale. My understanding was that the date command was
> generating the message in the Italian locale (default e
On the DOS prompt of Windows NT4/2000/XP, you should be able to get 16-bit Unicode
with "chcp 1".
markus
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:34:12PM -0400, Richard, Francois M wrote:
> I could not understand why I get the display of the letter ì in the
> en_US.UTF-8 Locale. My understanding was that the date command was
> generating the message in the Italian locale (default encoding iso-8859-1)
> and as a re
Richard, Francois M wrote:
> As a follow-up on this interesting issue, I did the following testing on
> Solaris 2.6:
>
>>setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
>>env LC_ALL=it echo
>>
> giovedì, 25 ottobre 2001, 11:45:24 EDT
>
> I could not understand why I get the display of the letter ì in the
> en_US.UT
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