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Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'



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Derek Martin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 07:37:51AM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
[snip]
> While the majority of people in the Windows world have switched
> to XP by now, there are still a surprisingly large number of
> people using Windows 98/ME (or even older releases) which don't
> support Unicode. The same is true in the Unix world... or at
> least the people using those systems haven't gotten around to
> updating their environments to use the Unicode support their OS
> provides.
> 
> So, it's a complicated issue.  Maybe 10 years from now, everyone
> will finally be using Unicode... but by then we'll probably have
> some other standard too. ;-)

When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have
happened.

P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird?

P.P.S. - How do you do the same from the console?

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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