Re: Charsets on Debian

2001-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 02:22:58PM +0100, Sven wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:23:41PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > There's no such thing as a ``default'' charset; there's the locale's > > charset. The default Western-European locales (fr_FR, de_DE, etc.) > > use ISO 8859-1, but there

Re: Charsets on Debian

2001-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 02:22:58PM +0100, Sven wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:23:41PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > There's no such thing as a ``default'' charset; there's the locale's > > charset. The default Western-European locales (fr_FR, de_DE, etc.) > > use ISO 8859-1, but there

Re: Charsets on Debian

2001-12-19 Thread Scott Bronson
> Er... that's not strictly X related, what's a better mailing list? No, it's not. Sorry about that. It was leading up to my offer, which is about the X keyboard layout and not i18n. I haven't seen the Compose Key documented anywhere, so I tried to write something up. If the X Strike Force wan

Re: Charsets on Debian

2001-12-19 Thread Scott Bronson
> Er... that's not strictly X related, what's a better mailing list? No, it's not. Sorry about that. It was leading up to my offer, which is about the X keyboard layout and not i18n. I haven't seen the Compose Key documented anywhere, so I tried to write something up. If the X Strike Force wa

Re: Charsets on Debian

2001-12-18 Thread Sven
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:23:41PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Er... that's not strictly X related, what's a better mailing list? > SB> Also, how do I change my charset? > > Change your locale to one with a different charset, and pray. > > SB> Wouldn't it be better if the Debian X packages

Re: Charsets on Debian

2001-12-18 Thread Sven
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:23:41PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Er... that's not strictly X related, what's a better mailing list? > SB> Also, how do I change my charset? > > Change your locale to one with a different charset, and pray. > > SB> Wouldn't it be better if the Debian X package

Re: Charsets on Debian

2001-12-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Er... that's not strictly X related, what's a better mailing list? SB> I recognize that on my US Debian system, characters 0-127 are SB> simply ASCII, and that characters 160-255 are ISO-8859-1. SB> What standard covers characters 128-159? ISO 2022, or perhaps ISO 6429. Or something else. (Th

Re: Charsets on Debian

2001-12-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Er... that's not strictly X related, what's a better mailing list? SB> I recognize that on my US Debian system, characters 0-127 are SB> simply ASCII, and that characters 160-255 are ISO-8859-1. SB> What standard covers characters 128-159? ISO 2022, or perhaps ISO 6429. Or something else. (T

Charsets on Debian

2001-12-18 Thread Scott Bronson
I recognize that on my US Debian system, characters 0-127 are simply ASCII, and that characters 160-255 are ISO-8859-1. What standard covers characters 128-159? Also, how do I change my charset? Wouldn't it be better if the Debian X packages used ISO-8859-15 by default? Thank you, - Sco

Charsets on Debian

2001-12-18 Thread Scott Bronson
I recognize that on my US Debian system, characters 0-127 are simply ASCII, and that characters 160-255 are ISO-8859-1. What standard covers characters 128-159? Also, how do I change my charset? Wouldn't it be better if the Debian X packages used ISO-8859-15 by default? Thank you, - Sc