on Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:30:55PM -0500, Glenn Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This is in the way of a partial followup to an earlier query of mine about > locales and locale definitions ... > > I managed to change LC_ALL back to what I understand to be the default > value, "C" ... > > HOWEVER, I'm experiencing some weird substitutions in Netscape. Simple-ish > international characters from languages like French and Spanish are being > replaced by Chinese characters. > > A good example is the "This page is also available in the following > languages" row at the bottom of the http://www.debian.org page. If <C> is > understood to represent a Chinese character, what I see on my screen > instead of "Espanol" is "Espa<C>l" ... and what I see instead of > "Francais" is "Fran<C>is". > > This even appears when I view source for the page. It seems that pairs of > characters are being interpreted as Chinese, which makes sense when you > realize that Asian character sets are double-byte. But why is this > replacement happening, and how can I keep it from happening? > > Thanks in advance for any enlightenment. I will cross post on some of the > i18n lists. > > Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community > SCIFI.COM
What's the output of the following: $ locale Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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