Re: Omega character

[John Coppens <john jcoppens com>]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:20:40 +0200
"David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:34:56PM -0300, John Coppens wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply, I've never really thought much about about the
> > consequences of using the locale to generate programs (in my
> > defense:the locale is 'C' which should be available everywhere).
>
> C locale does not define characters beyond ASCII (it does
> not even define ASCII IIRC), so even simple things like é
> can work just by coincidence.  And I don't think you are
> actually using C locale, because if I try it and use
> g_locale_to_utf8() with 8bit characters in C locale, it
> fails (correctly).

Yeti,

You're right, of course. It seems I programmed LC_ALL=en_US at some time
to solve another problem.

> > I suspected this, but when I call locale-to-utf8, I get something like
> > ?<copyright>. Not calling locale-to-utf8 works fine, but I'll have to
> > escape all special characters, probably even simple things like 'é'.
>
> You can write in UTF-8 directly (I'd recommend that) or you
> can mix the approaches, but convert from a particular
> charset with g_convert() then, not from locale.  I suppose
> you want to convert from ISO-8859-1.
>
> > A question: What happens if the destination machine doesn't have the
> > sophisticated Ohms sign? Or even the Omega?
>
> Depending on the font rendering backend... well, you'll
> probably get those nice boxes with hexadeciaml character
> codes.

Ok... Very clear. I'm quite addicted to the joe editor, and notice it has
support for UTF-8. Eterm is too old, and doesn't, so I'll have to
reinstall that and a few other dependencies.

Thank you very much, Yeti.

John

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