[ILUG] Locale fun and games.

[P at draigBrady.com]

John P. Looney wrote:
> 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.

I don't know about konsole but I would be 99% sure it handles utf8.
Does the following output foreign chars?

locale -a |
grep utf8 |
uniq -w2 |
while read LANG; do
     cal |
     head -2 | tail -1;
done

When you start vim, and enter a €, and do g8 on that char
do you get "e2 82 ac" in the status line?

> Is there any KDE magic you need to make fonts do UTF8 ?

The default fonts which konsole should pick up,
contain quite a few unicode chars.
How does this page display for you?
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/utf8.html

If you want loads more foreign chars for some reason
install the following: http://www.google.com/search?q=freesans.ttf
With fontconfig, all I had to do was copy that to ~/.fonts

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