[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#10279) gui-xaw iconv bugs

["Egor Vyscrebentsov" <evyscr@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10279 >

> [jdorje - Sep 23 18:32:21 2004]:
> 
> When I run the XAW client, if I use UTF-8 as the local encoding it
> won't display non-ascii characters properly.  When I use latin1 it
> does work. 
>   So on my system XAW only accepts characters in ISO-8859-1.  But 
> obviously on a different system this wouldn't be the case.  How are
> we to know?

For a long time gui-xaw works normally in utf-8 and non-latin1 chars
at least for me (thanks, Vasco!)
 
> Once we find out, we just register this as the internal encoding in 
> init_character_encodings().  Or if there's a way to configure this,
> then we should use UTF-8 and register that.  I looked for this
> before but couldn't find any way to do it.

utf-8 still not always used as internal encoding. What is a right way
to force client to use utf-8?
(UTF-8 is supported from S2_0)

-- 
Thanks, evyscr