Re: UTF-8 on stdout?

[tino schwarze informatik tu-chemnitz de (Tino Schwarze)]

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.

Just my two EUR-cents. Tino.

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