Re: ???????????????

On 2007-10-30, Thomas Wiegner <wiegner@xxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-10-30, andrew <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Looks like your copy of slrn has mangled the text?

No, his version could perfectly display this if
- he is running slrn in a UTF-8 locale
- has fonts installed wich can display chinese characters

When running e.g. in a iso-8859-1 locale there is no way to translate
chinese characters into iso-8859-1 characters.

Thanks for that Thomas. I now remember that the trigger to change the
locale on my own computer to UTF-8 was a Japanese sig file in another
group which slrn rendered as ?????.

Mind you I did see the following message in the script that set the
locale (slackware):

# There is also support for UTF-8 locales, but be aware that
# some programs are not yet able to handle UTF-8 and will fail to
# run properly. In those cases, you can set LANG=C before
# starting them. Still, I'd avoid UTF unless you actually need it.

I wonder how many distros feature UTF-8 support out of the box?
Slackware does not while ubuntu does...

Andrew

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