[ILUG] Fonts (unicode? issue)

[Conor Wynne]

On 26 Apr 2006, at 19:34, Brian Foster wrote:

>   | 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?

Ah yes of course, I forgot that the browser would render it   
correctly :-0

>  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(?)

Yes I shall, I'll post it later.

> 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-

Good man.

Cdlt.
Conor.