[ILUG] Locale fun and games.

[Justin Mason]

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John P. Looney writes:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:05:06PM +0100, P at draigBrady.com mentioned:
> > Make sure you have LANG=en_IE.UTF-8 on BOTH systems,
> > and are using software that supports UTF8.
> > 
> > Everything should be UTF8 these days.
> > There are no excuses.
> 
>  I'm still getting used to KDE, but I can't work out how to make kconsole
> do UTF8 - I set my LANG mode, so that works for apps like xchat - but
> that's about it. Is there any KDE magic you need to make fonts do UTF8 ?

Menu: Settings -> Encoding -> Unicode (utf8)

WFM!

btw while we're talking about konsole -- my current favourite feature is
its builtin ZModem support. believe it or not, despite being 700 years old
or so, this is still incredibly handy for when you're 5 ssh hops into a
network, and need to transfer some files:

    local end: tar cvfz ~/tf [some bunch of files]
    remote: rz
    local konsole: Menu: Edit -> ZModem Upload -> select ~/tf
    [wait for transfer]
    remote: CTRL-C
    remote: tar xvfz tf

and hey presto.

- --j.
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