On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:18:08AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: [...] | How is support for UTF-8 locales? I just realized that I forgot to answer this question. I've been using 'en_US.UTF-8' as my locale for some time now. Many applications handle it very well, though some don't. Particularly anything based on GTK+ 1.2 doesn't handle any multi-byte locate very well. The only GTK+ 1.2 app I still use regularly is gnucash. It ends up displaying an outline box in between every character. To solve that, I created a script I use to run gnucash to set the locate to just en_US for that process. Everything else that I use has already moved on to GTK+ 2 or uses a different toolkit and en_US.UTF-8 has at the least no adverse affect on it and sometimes is an improvement too. Some GTK+ 1.2 apps can deal with a UTF-8 locale. None of this is debian-specific, FWIW. -D -- The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death. Proverbs 13:14 www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org
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