Re: Character encodings/Locale
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:23:37AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Can someone explain the difference? Also, what do I need to do to set my
> machine to work with 8859-1 instead of just ASCII?
This is usually program-specific in ADDITION to being operating system
specific. For example: mutt can't read the accents but the editor I use
with mutt (vim) can understand them. At least it could for those accents.
It doesn't normally understand them (probably because it's normally trying
to read Windows encoded characters, which is a different encoding).
There's a related primer that I wrote which may be of interest to you.
It's specific to search engines, but the information on locales is
generic:
http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/language.phtml
emma
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