[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11531) Name encoding problems with UTF-8 nation files

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11531 >

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:47:19AM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
> Christian Knoke wrote:
> > 
> > Looks like there are still problems in the civserver console with presenting
> > names from nation files that are in UTF-8:

> >>list
> > 
> > Spieler:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Józef KoŌdoń (Benutzername chris, menschlich, Nation Schlesier) 1
> > Verbindung:
> >  chris von localhost (Zugriffsberechtigung hack, 40 KB Buffer)
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I suspect these problems are in your terminal configuration.  Looks to 
> me like you set your locale to UTF-8 but your terminal is configured to 
> display Latin1/Latin15.  So the UTF-8 is output correctly by Freeciv but 
> simply drawn wrong.

I'm no expert, but

1. I supposed this was working in any Terminal now.
2. I have used a non-UTF terminal.
3. I have the problem both with de_DE@euro *and* de_DE@UTF-8
4. When I use an UTF-8 terminal and de_DE@UTF-8 I get:

> list
List of players:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Józef Ko?do? (user chris, Human, nation Silesians) 1 connection:
  chris from localhost (command access level hack), bufsize=40kb
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(That's not quite true, I see spaces instead of '?')


Christian

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