Re: Locales with wrong umlauts

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Klaus Reimer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get WebDruid (http://www.webdruid.org/) running on Windows with
> german language. The compilation went fine and I have copied webdruid.exe
> with all necessary DLLs to a Windows-Server. Now I'm trying to run it with
> german language in cmd with these commands:
>
> set LC_ALL=de_DE
> webdruid
>
> The output is german but the german umlauts are not displayed correctly.
> Instead of 'gültigen' 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?

I don't know that much about locales, but shouldn't adding a charset,
e.g., "set LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8", work?
	Igor
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