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