Re: UTF-8 on stdout?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Andrew Ferrier 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.

-Lars

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