On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:20:40 +0200 "David Necas (Yeti)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:34:56PM -0300, John Coppens wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reply, I've never really thought much about about the > > consequences of using the locale to generate programs (in my > > defense:the locale is 'C' which should be available everywhere). > > C locale does not define characters beyond ASCII (it does > not even define ASCII IIRC), so even simple things like é > can work just by coincidence. And I don't think you are > actually using C locale, because if I try it and use > g_locale_to_utf8() with 8bit characters in C locale, it > fails (correctly). Yeti, You're right, of course. It seems I programmed LC_ALL=en_US at some time to solve another problem. > > I suspected this, but when I call locale-to-utf8, I get something like > > ?<copyright>. Not calling locale-to-utf8 works fine, but I'll have to > > escape all special characters, probably even simple things like 'é'. > > You can write in UTF-8 directly (I'd recommend that) or you > can mix the approaches, but convert from a particular > charset with g_convert() then, not from locale. I suppose > you want to convert from ISO-8859-1. > > > A question: What happens if the destination machine doesn't have the > > sophisticated Ohms sign? Or even the Omega? > > Depending on the font rendering backend... well, you'll > probably get those nice boxes with hexadeciaml character > codes. Ok... Very clear. I'm quite addicted to the joe editor, and notice it has support for UTF-8. Eterm is too old, and doesn't, so I'll have to reinstall that and a few other dependencies. Thank you very much, Yeti. John > Yeti > > > -- > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
