On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 05:59:42PM EDT, Christian Ebert wrote:
> * A.J.Mechelynck on Saturday, July 22, 2006 at 22:40:45 +0200:
> > The French oe (o, e-dans-l'o) is not defined in the Latin1 encoding, 
> > neither in capitals (as for titles or if the word "oeuf" [egg] is the 
> > first of a sentence), nor in lowercase. You need UTF-8 for it,
> 
> No. Just latin9 or ISO8859-15 (Look at the header of this mail).
> 
> Mon coeur.
> 
> This is on a Mac with a German keyboard, but using actually an
> American keyboard layout. I enter the "oe" with Alt-q (the "Alt"
> key on Mac keyboard corresponds to the Modifier key on other
> keyboards I believe).

Could this be Mac-specific? 

I switched to encoding=latin9.

When I do a Ctrl-K o e and a Ctrl-K O E this is what I get:

½ ¼ 

confirmed by the :dig command.

I looked carefully at the output of :dig and I couldn't see our elusive
"e dans l'o" either.

So I switched to the French ISO-08859-15, then the US version of
latin9.. still can't find that "o dans l'e".

Strange thing is that the font I use on terminals does have these two
characters (upper/lower case E dans l'O..) in the exact same spot Vim
displays the above fractions.. 

I'm lost.
> 
> $ echo $LANG
> en_US.ISO8859-15
> 
> Alain Bench @ mutt-users pointed me to this site:
> 
> <http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/>
> 
> where you can get also a little utility at
> 
> <http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/checklocale.c>
> 
> It gives the following output here:
> 
> 
> [Latin1/9] If there's no real copyrightsymbol at the end of this sentence,
> then your terminal/terminalemulator/font is not ISO8859-1/15 ready: ©
> 
> - Current environment settings:
>   LANG        = "en_US.ISO8859-15"
> 
> - Implicitly setting all locale categories with LANG succeeded.
> 
>   Testing LC_CTYPE with isprint():
>   # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 
>   # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 
>     ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 
>   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? 
>   @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O 
>   P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ 
>   ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o 
>   p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ # 
>   # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 
>   # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 
>     ¡ ¢ £ EUR ¥ ? § ? © ª « ¬ ­ ® ¯ 
>   ° ± ² ³ ? µ ¶ · ? ¹ º » OE oe ? ¿ 
>   À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï 
>   Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß 
>   à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï 
>   ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ 
>   
> - Testing LC_MESSAGES with perror(), but it's a libc message.
> 
> - Implicitly setting     LC_CTYPE by LANG succeeded.
> - Implicitly setting   LC_NUMERIC by LANG succeeded.
> - Implicitly setting      LC_TIME by LANG succeeded.
> - Implicitly setting   LC_COLLATE by LANG succeeded.
> - Implicitly setting  LC_MONETARY by LANG succeeded.
> - Implicitly setting  LC_MESSAGES by LANG succeeded.
> 
> 
> Mind you, what you will actually see might depend eventual broken
> mailer settings, missing characters in fonts etc.
> 
> But I can write cedille, ae, oe, a-ring, several vowels with
> trema and even EUR EURO.
> 
Thanks

cga

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