Re: UTF-8 on stdout?

[Andrew Ferrier <andrew junk new-destiny co uk>]

On 2002-07-06 at 16:15 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:

> > OK, now I have to admit to being a bit confused <grin>.
> > Surely what we want is for the accents etc. to be output
> > correctly both on the screen when using --credits and in
> > the AUTHORS file? Which will be the same thing in most
> > cases, right? My question is how to get the UTF-8 encoding
> > to print out the correct characters from the ASCII
> > character set (see the current output of --credits to see
> > what I mean). Or am I missing the point of all of this
> > UTF-8 stuff totally?
>
> I don't see any problems with the ASCII characters in the
> output.  Only the non-ASCII chars in Cyrille's and Hubert's
> names look funny.  There may not be a single locale that
> would be able to display them all (except if you consider
> UTF-8/Unicode a locale).  When I run the output through PAPS,
> I do get the right chars.  Note that ASCII doesn't contain é
> or è, you're probably thinking of Latin-1.  That output is
> just the way it should be, blame the xterm writers for not
> udnerstanding UTF-8.

Those were the problems I was referring to :). I think I was
getting mixed up with my terminology: I see your point and I
think I understand. I won't worry about it too much then. I was
thinking of old-fashoned ANSI (255 chars) --- I have to admit I
have no idea how this maps onto character sets these days,
though I think what I'm thinking of basically is Latin-1.
That's the same as ISO 8859-1, right?

In fact, the more I think about this, the more I get confused.
I can't seem to find any good introduction/references to all
this stuff on the web. Does anyone know where I can go to learn
more about character sets etc. these days?

I will leave the output as it is, write the AUTHORS dependency
etc., and then the bug can be closed.

Ta,
Andrew.

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Andrew Ferrier

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