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From: Matthias Bethke <matthias@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UTF-8 troubles
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:24:33
Message-Id: 20061206151518.GC23853@huxley
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] UTF-8 troubles by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 Hi Bo,
2 on Saturday, 2006-12-02 at 06:48:51, you wrote:
3 > > I switched a few systems to all-UTF-8 a while ago, and while it's
4 > > generally a big improvement, a few apps are playing up.
5 >
6 > There's a nice guide [1] in case you haven't noticed.
7
8 Yup, I largely folloed it in my transition.
9
10 > > Pretty common apps that is, most notably tin and centericq, so I think it's
11 > > probably my problem.
12 > [SNIP]
13 >
14 > I don't know anything about tin bug for centericq there's bug #138740 [2]. I'm
15 > not sure the unicode support in centericq is flawless though. Otherwise I
16 > would suggest looking for alternatives with better unicode support.
17
18 OK, in centericq's case it seems to be the program's fault, I was just
19 wondering because the errors are so similar that it might be an ncurses
20 problem. Well, I'll just try slrn...
21 Thanks!
22 Matthias
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