Re: Charsets on Debian
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:23:41PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> Er... that's not strictly X related, what's a better mailing list?
> SB> Also, how do I change my charset?
>
> Change your locale to one with a different charset, and pray.
>
> SB> Wouldn't it be better if the Debian X packages used ISO-8859-15 by
> SB> default?
>
> There's no such thing as a ``default'' charset; there's the locale's
> charset. The default Western-European locales (fr_FR, de_DE, etc.)
> use ISO 8859-1, but there are variant locales that use ISO 8859-15
> (fr_FR@euro, etc.) and other variants that use UTF-8 (fr_FR.UTF8 etc.)
But you might want to use a given charset to display stuff, but use another
language for your locales.
An example of this is when you have a mail reading program, where you wish to
be able to view ISO 8859-1 correctly, but still keep the english localized
messages.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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