Re: non-ASCII characters in /etc/locales.alias ?
Hi,
At Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:54:39 -0500,
Glenn Maynard wrote:
> The only thing I might call "wrong" about this is just a nitpick: you
> need a Japanese-capable locale, not a Japanese locale. (en_US.UTF-8 is
> fine, you don't need ja_JP.XXX.)
No, I cannot _input_ Japanese character in non-Japanese locale so far.
(Note, not _display_ but _input_). If you can input Japanese characters
in non-Japanese locale, how did you do? In hexadecimal codepoint,
or, copy-and-paste from other softwares?
> Well, that's valid SJIS: 蹂裼. Perhaps his shell session is set to
> POSIX, but his xterm "intelligently" figures it out? (I don't like
> things doing that; it obscures problems and confuses people.)
I use ja_JP.eucJP locale. However, the current version of xterm
supports only two modes: no-locale (8bit-input-means-index-for-fonts)
mode and UTF-8 mode. Current version of xterm detects only UTF-8 locale
and sets itself into UTF-8 mode, otherwise it sets itself into no-locale
mode. Tollef's mail didn't have any necessary information on his (her?)
environment. (Sorry, I don't know Tollef is male name or female name...)
Well, the mail header of your mail contains:
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp
and your "SJIS" string was encoded in ISO-2022-JP. By the way,
I don't know the word from two kanji characters, though a big
Japanese dictionary might have the word. I cannot confirm the
character I am now reading is what you really intended.
And, the original Tollef's mail had
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
This is _really_ important, though 8bit-language-speakers who
are careless about i18n might ignore this. I don't pretend
I didn't understand Tollef's mail. I _really_ didn't understand.
If your mail software accidentally displays Tollef's "Japanese"
characters, your mail software _doesn't_ support MIME "charset".
Why did you think Tollef's mail was encoded in SJIS?
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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