[ILUG] Fonts (unicode? issue)

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:30:34 +0000
  | From: conor at discuskeeping.com
  | 
  | I have a customer who has a French install of linux, now he is
  | complaining about strange display on french characters.
  | 
  | It affects both console and applications, and an example of such is :
  | sshd: Génération de la clé RSA1 succeeded.

 I'm probably missing the point, but that looks Ok to me?
 Suggesting, maybe, the charset of the locale is bogus?
 ( But I must admit I don't — after a few strong Belguim
  biers — grok quite how a bogus charset would mess up
  the glyph rendering, unless the glyphs aren't being
  accessed by codepoint value but by encoded value?
   Ah, I wonder if that's it: Could s\he be using something
  like an ISO-8859-x font in an ISO-10646 (e.g., UTF-8)
  locale, or maybe visa-versa? )
 It might be helpful if you could post a screenshot, since
 yer copy-and-pasted(?) text, above, looks Ok — which is
 why I suspect some sort of a fsckup in the codesets of
 the locale vs. the font, even if I cannot put my thumb
 on the problem:  The codepoint values (which is what is
 copy-and-pasted) seem to be Ok, and so it appears to
 render properly when everything is in-sync (as it is
 on my system).

cheers!
	-blf-
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