Re: UTF-8 on stdout?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Tino Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:57:14PM +0100, Andrew Ferrier wrote:
> 
>> Quick question: does anyone know how to print UTF-8 correctly
>> on stdout? Specifically, the problem I'm having is correcting a
>> bug in --credits where the UTF-8 encoding of some accents is
>> not displaying correctly (e.g. Chepelov). See apx. line 328 of
>> app_procs.c to see what I mean, or just run dia --credits. I
>> want to retain this UTF-8 encoding because the same data is
>> also used in the about box etc.
> 
> I think there should be two command line switches: --credits and
> --credits-utf8. The first outputs in whatever charset the locale
> suggests while the second is used to generate AUTHORS.

Isn't there a locale that uses UTF-8 that could be used to generate AUTHORS?

-Lars

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