On Wednesday 22 March 2006 17:32, James Wilkinson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Side issue, James. Are you having any problems displaying accented > > letters? I have language=British English, and character set=utf8. When I > > should see an accented letter I get a double space instead. > > Not usually, no. But it sounds as though you've got problems with part > of your computing environment using UTF8 and part of it using ISO 8859 > variants. UTF8 is undoubtedly superior, but the transition period is a > bit sticky... > > Can you open a shell and type > echo $LANG > It should return > en_GB.UTF-8 > which should confirm your settings. > > And you'd probably better check /etc/sysconfig/i18n, too. > Both say that I'm using en_US.UTF-8. I have kde set to use en_GB.UTF-8, I believe, but if I run system-config-language only en_US.UTF-8 is present. How can I change it? > With this set up, you should be good to enter and save accented letters. > You should also be able to receive (properly formatted) e-mails with > accents in, since the e-mails should contain headers describing the > encoding used. > > So, for example, уоυ ѕhουld ье аьlе to read that (with any luck, and a > good font) even though it contains quite a few Greek and Cyrillic > letters, because this message will have a header saying that it's > encoded in UTF8. > > The problem comes when you have text files that come from non-UTF8 > systems, or filenames from non-UTF8 systems, or applications which don't > understand UTF8. If you're seeing double spaces, then you're probably > seeing UTF8 data displayed in a non-UTF8 program (or system). > > In which case, it would be helpful to know precisely which program or > system that is, so we can recommend better settings. > I've seen it mostly in konqueror file manager, but yesterday I received an email where one name showed the same problem. Maybe I have two language settings slogging it out. What do I need to change to get it into sync, James? Anne
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