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

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Jason Short wrote:

> 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.

When you have problems with something using ISO-8859-1 and the other using
UTF-8, here are some pointers:

If you see strange characters: your ISO-8859-1 app is confused by receiving
UTF-8 text.

If you see no characters: your UTF-8 app is getting confused by receiving
ISO-8859-1 text.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa