Re: glib idea of what my charset is seems wrong

[Joel Becker <jlbec evilplan org>]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:47:32PM -0800, Darin Adler wrote:
> glib seems to think that my locale character set is ANSI_X3.4-1968. That's
> what I get from g_get_charset. But I have lots of files that use various ISO
> 8859-1 characters, and the rest of the tools, like gnome-terminal, seem to
> handle that.

	Your tools are making assumptions.  Try the files with less(1).
Less will refuse the characters, giving <XX> in reverse video (where XX
is the hexidecimal value).
	ANSI_X3.4-1968 is ASCII, in case you are wondering.

Joel

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