[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#1824) Re: (PR#5449) blank lines in message window and output

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Wheeler wrote:
> --- Jason Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>The problem is in Freeciv - we don't explicitly
>>handle any charsets
>>other than latin1, we just hope everything works
>>out.  Sometimes it
>>doesn't.  See PR#1824.
>>
>>jason
> 
> 
> Thanks for the referal.  I'm afraid I'm not getting
> the hang of the search system in RT, because I did try
> quite hard to find a previous reference.  Using
> "export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1" before starting civ
> returns the behavior to the obnoxious but acceptable
> '?' in place of international characters.

Hmm, well that shouldn't be.  What international characters are these? 
All of the ones in Freeciv should already be in Latin1.  But if you're 
using the Gtk2 client it does some manual conversions of text (gtk2 uses 
UTF-8 so all strings must be manually converted), so maybe the problem 
stems from there.

jason