Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice

2004-02-06 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Christian Schnobrich wrote: > part of my work is to write some plain text files [..], I have > to set the coding system of my editor to utf-8. If they're > anything else, both gedit and emacs will garble german umlauts > in the text. I use bluefish as my editor now. Very nice. UTF-8 and gtk-immo

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-05 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Don, 2004-02-05 at 05:51, Stefan Baums wrote: > > #export LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8" > > The official form of the locale name is de_DE.UTF-8. Donʼt know > whether that causes your problem. I doesn't seem to matter... I've now got it set to de_DE.UTF-8 (capitals & hyphen) which seems to work. In my

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Stefan Baums
> #export LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8" The official form of the locale name is de_DE.UTF-8. Donât know whether that causes your problem. Stefan -- Stefan Baums Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, February 05 at 2:37 AM EST Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mit, 2004-02-04 at 18:19, Shawn Lamson wrote: > >> Can you copy the output of >> #locale -a >> and >> #locale >> for us? >> Also I am no expert in locales but I think this may be your problem. > >Thanks for yo

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Mit, 2004-02-04 at 18:19, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Can you copy the output of > #locale -a > and > #locale > for us? > Also I am no expert in locales but I think this may be your problem. Thanks for your continued interest. Here it comes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale -a > bokmal > bokm?l > C

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, February 04 at 6:07 PM EST Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mit, 2004-02-04 at 16:04, Shawn Lamson wrote: > >> You could try starting OO from a shell where you are exporting the >> locale. I would check the output of locale to see what it is set to >now.> Mine is LC_CTY

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Mit, 2004-02-04 at 16:04, Shawn Lamson wrote: > You could try starting OO from a shell where you are exporting the > locale. I would check the output of locale to see what it is set to now. > Mine is LC_CTYPE="POSIX" and I don't have a problem rendering utf8... > utf8 shows up in the output of

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice (amended)

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, February 04 at 3:27 PM EST Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >part of my work is to write some plain text files, that will later be >put to several uses by different applications. Hence the plain text. >And because I'm lazy, I like to copy'n'paste them off the WWW.

Re: coding system woes / OpenOffice

2004-02-04 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, February 04 at 3:27 PM EST Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >part of my work is to write some plain text files, that will later be >put to several uses by different applications. Hence the plain text. >And because I'm lazy, I like to copy'n'paste them off the WWW.

coding system woes / OpenOffice

2004-02-04 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, part of my work is to write some plain text files, that will later be put to several uses by different applications. Hence the plain text. And because I'm lazy, I like to copy'n'paste them off the WWW... Now, for the copy&paste part to work, I have to set the coding system of my editor to