Re: Problem wih characters (was Problem with IME)

jim_breen_at_hotmail.com
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: 25 Feb 2005 06:06:50 GMT

Bart Mathias <mathias@hawaii.edu> dixit:
>I start Mozilla (in Linux) with "LANG=ja_JP mozilla &" (Canna server is
>already running).

>Whenever I do so, I am unable to use extended ASCII characters, such as
>"" (that's a "c" with cedilla), "" (that's the Pound Sterling sign),
>etc., using KCharSelect. I have benn able to copy such characters over
>from other e-mail/Usenet posts. I am able to copy such characters from
>other posts: "??? ?????" has two that I can't do with KCharSelect.
>But I cannot, for example, copy from an outside text.
[snip]

Have you tried "LANG=ja_JP.utf8"? I suspect you are telling it to use
a default internal Japanese code like EUC or Shift_JIS, which
doesn't include the Latin-1 extensions. 

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