On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:18:08AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
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| 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
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