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

[Dmitri Pogosyan <pogosyan cita utoronto ca>]

Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Well, as of now (with my locale set to 'C')  I just choose the font
I want to view the message with in Netscape Communicator.
I do have appropriate fonts installed. Same for input - launch
editor with an approriate font and some keyboard layout switcher.
Can't figure out how to use locale, so as not to have everything
russified.



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