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Re: Locales with wrong umlauts


On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:59:28 +0200, Klaus Reimer wrote:
>
>set LC_ALL=de_DE
>webdruid
>
>The output is german but the german umlauts are not displayed correctly. 
>Instead of 'gÃltigen' I get 'g"ultigen'. I think it's because the library 
>responsible for the locales (is that libintl2?) converts the output to 7-Bit 
>ASCII. How can I change this so the output is ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 or any 
>other encoding Windows can display correctly?

try the following:

set LC_ALL=de_DE OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso-8859-1
webdruid

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