Re: characters ISO8859-1 (West European - pt)

[Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de>]

On 2001.06.04 16:47:42 +0200 Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
> This is what I can never understand with localization.
> I do not want to localize anything in X
> (I'm used to have plain old US english everywhere, ls sorting according
> to ascii codes and not alphabetically, etc),
> but I do want to read messages written in differen languages (and
> several different languages moreoever, say english, russian (cyrillic),
> estonian (accents) ).

yeah and how do you tell e.g. xfree that the content of something you
receive is cyrillic or arabic or japanese etc ? these chars and notations
are different in all ways. you have to custimize your settings for your
local are.. but oki you are not forced to SWITCH explicit language you
also can set the CHARSET specification AKA ISOxxxxxxx so you can read
at least european etc.. i also heard of a language switching too btw.
of the possibility to add more languages and charset specs into xfree.
but please dont ask me how. since xfree really lacks in good documentation
you are on your own most of the time.

> Sorry, it is not question of Balsa, it is a question about localization
> phylosophy.

greets.

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