Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and UTF-8

[gabor <gabor@z10n.net>]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 13:42 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Friday 20 August 2004 18:50, purslow@sympatico.ca wrote:
> > 040820 Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> > > Gentoo's UTF-8 support is not very good at the moment.
> >
> > more generally, GNU/Linux support for UTF8 is patchy.
> >
> > recently, i checked out editors & word-processors
> > in order to be able to create & use documents containing
> > Ancient Greek with English and Esperanto with English
> > & found character input & printing very limited.
> > Gvim handles input ok & OO can print the result; Yudit is ok, if ugly;
> > one can get OO to input UTF8, but it needs workarounds; otherwise, v
> > poor.
> >
> > there are a lot of things which don't get noticed till someone tries
> > them & even then still don't get attended to when deficiencies are
> 
> What I think is also very much needed for this is documentation. I 
> currently run simply without setting any locale. This works for me, but 
> if I were to test UTF8 stuff, I would need to know how.

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8   ?

gabor


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