Re: Future changes to /usr/games/fortune
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- Subject: Re: Future changes to /usr/games/fortune
- From: Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:07:38 +0100
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Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>:
> 2) fortune(6) checks locale[1] and converts output into this locale's
> charset.
> 3) If there are undisplayable characters, fortune(6) either exits with
> an error message, or uses TRANSLIT iconv extension (it does not work
> properly anyway, but hopefully it will in some time)
See http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2001-10/msg00067.html about
how to do this with the iconv command.
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