From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6144 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 13:27:05 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Aug 2004 13:27:05 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzEqn-00087v-9z for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:27:05 +0000 Received: (qmail 5220 invoked by uid 89); 23 Aug 2004 13:27:04 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1302 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 13:27:04 +0000 From: gabor To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200408231342.50321.pauldv@gentoo.org> References: <200408201343.28455.lanius@gentoo.org> <20040820165036.GB16863@sympatico.ca> <200408231342.50321.pauldv@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:31:17 +0200 Message-Id: <1093267877.4509.4.camel@dubb> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.92.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 97f416f7-7da7-4e6a-a495-3b015d2a0ad6 X-Archives-Hash: 132b1936839b5405e567c1fa4d4833c9 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list