Re: French accents

2008-08-29 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Dr. Aprahamian wrote: I am having difficulty with file names that have French accents. For example the file.- AfficheJourn\351e\311tudeP\350reaveclogos-1.pdf exists but because it has the French e accent in its title the programme is not recognizing it. Which programme is

Re: [PATCH] use new global, "Version", rather than macro, VERSION

2008-08-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Your patch meets the stated goal, so I think it's fine to check in. If > nothing else, it made me investigate using ccache on my machine. Thanks for the review. ccache is well worth using. I find that even on relatively small projects, the ccache-induc

FYI, bootstrap tweak

2008-08-29 Thread Jim Meyering
[I'm about to propagate this and a couple of other changes into gnulib's build-aux/bootstrap. ] With the addition of a gnulib test file matching tests/*/test-*.sh (gnulib-tests/uniwidth/test-uc_width2.sh) "make check" broke because the copied shell script was no longer executable. Tracking that d

Re: French accents

2008-08-29 Thread Dr. Aprahamian
Hello, Thanks for the reply. It's the PuTTY.exe that is not recognizing the French accents. Your e-address was given for help. Sorry for the inconvenience, sima --- Sima Aprahamian, Ph.D. Sociology-Anthropology & Simone de Beauvoir Institute Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve W. Montreal

getgid --help

2008-08-29 Thread Elan Ruusamäe
hi getgid usage is invalid, mentions FILE while really it should be NAME: $ getgid --help Usage: getgid [OPTION]... [FILE]... Prints ID of given group name. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit Report bugs to . $ getgid /dev/null getgid

Re: getgid --help

2008-08-29 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
getgid usage is invalid, mentions FILE while really it should be NAME: $ getgid --help Usage: getgid [OPTION]... [FILE]... Prints ID of given group name. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit Report bugs to . $ get

Re: French accents

2008-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Dr. Aprahamian wrote: > It's the PuTTY.exe that is not recognizing the French accents. Your > e-address was given for help. > Sorry for the inconvenience, The PuTTY.exe home page is: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ See their Feedback section on reporting issues with PuTTY.

Re: French accents

2008-08-29 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Dr. Aprahamian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > I am having difficulty with file names that have French accents. > For example the file.- > AfficheJourn\351e\311tudeP\350reaveclogos-1.pdf > exists but because it has the French e accent in its title the progra

date validator

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
Regarding some RISKS postings that bear not so standard Dates, causing some browsing systems to read them as Jan 1 1970, etc., > "R" == RISKS List Owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R> How do we address this? We need to get every mailer in the world R> compliant... Well, we could pump all da