Re: Locales and OpenOffice.
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Vegard Munthe]
> > In console I get a bit funky characters, date gives:
> >
> > "ዓርቢ፡ መጋቢት4 መዓልቲ 7:14:28 ድሕር ሰዓት
> > CET 2005 ዓ/ም"
> >
> > My fedora core 3 dist shows the right character (Tigrigna), so I'm
> > guessing I'm missing a font or similar. Anyone have ideas?
>
> I guess you need to enable UTF-8 mode in the console.Perhaps
> <URL:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html> is helpful?Fedore
> uses UTF-8 by default, and that is probably the reason you see the
> right characters there.
>
> Try doing the same in 'xterm -u8', to enable utf-8 mode in the xterm.
Thank you. This was the problem for the console, but not for OO.org. One
step closer! Very nice. Thank you for helping.
-- Vegard Munthe
FAIR
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