[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Encoding was: Re: (PR#8109) Only a dead veteran is a good veteran

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Christian Knoke wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:40:19AM -0800, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Christian Knoke wrote:
> >
> > > Game: Your attacking Cruise Missile succeeded against Mária Terézia's 
> > > Mech. Inf.
> > > outside of Szatmárnémeti and became more experienced!
> >
> > Hmmm, playing in an UTF-8 server. A veteran cruise missile, that one is a
> > riot! :-D
>
> Hhm, what have I done wrong? I just compiled as usual on my new woody box.
> This whole encoding matter is confusing to me - I even do not understand the
> FAQ.
>
> So I need a non UTF-8 server? How can I get it?

I should have explained myself better. The veteran problem is not related
to any string encoding problem, but completely separate.

I only noticed you were using an ISO-8859-1 client on an UTF-8 server
because of this:

"Mária Terézia" and "Szatmárnémeti"

UTF-8 (a Unicode format) differs from ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1 format) in
things like accented characters, which are not in the ASCII map. Both
client and server get the hint for which encoding format to use from the
LANG shell variable. You can know which encoding format you are currently
using the typing:

$ locale charmap

At a shell prompt.

For more information on what UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 are see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-8859-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa