Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> writes: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 00:59, Xavier Maillard wrote: > --snip-- > > Hmm, would you mind expanding on how you did set it globally ? I am > > quite interested even though it is not my main problem for > > instance. > > Quite simple actually. 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' > > Personally, I use en_US.UTF8, sr_YU.UTF8, sr_YU.UTF8@cyrillic. Yep got it ;) > If you like strictly numeric time/date displays, that's all that's > needed. I prefer to have the date shown with full names of months, so > I have LC_TIME set to 'C' in my .bashrc. That's fine. > > > problems I have are when using a plain (i.e. not xterm) console, > > > some characters don't display correctly. But for communication > > > with others, I've never had a problem. > > > > That's ok for me. But are M$ MUA and others (i.e. Eudora and things > > like that) ready to deal with Unicode yet ? Actually I don't really > > want not to be understand by a M$ user (I have dozen friends of > > mine under the dark side of the Force ;)). > > I'm pretty sure that most MUA's, M$ and otherwise, already have full > Unicode support. Any MUA that's used anywhere outside of the US would > pretty much HAVE to have it in order to be used seriously. On the off > chance that they don't, however, you don't really have to worry about > it. All regular ASCII characters (i.e. all characters in the English > alphabet) will still show up fine. What happen if I type accentuated characters though ? Is it possible to mix japanese with english and some french in one message ? How is it handled then ? In fact I am learning japanese and I have a few friends which I would be interested in exchanging words in several language at the same time but dunno if it is well supported by their MUA :) zeDek -- "Can we get into a much more productive `my OS needs less work to *SET UP* (not install) than yours' war instead? How about a `my os takes less time, money, energy and grey hair to effectively admin than yours ever will' dicksize war? Those I think Linux can win." (Josh Fishman)
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