Accents problem

Eric Bouyoux eric.bouyoux at insidefr.com
Mon Dec 7 09:28:05 CET 2009


Hi,

I have the problem in all cases : if the character with accent is
already in the file or if I add it myself.

Regards.

Eric Bouyoux.

Philippe Poilbarbe a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Maybe a silly question, but does it happens when you open an existing
> file or when you type a character like 'â'?
>
> I have, like you, the same problem when opening a file with already
> utf-8 characters inside it, but when I type an accented character I have
> the right character displayed (iso-8859-1), then in the file there is a
> mix of utf-8 and iso-8859-1 characters.
> It happens because we are many users editing the file and some are using
> geany, and geany uses utf-8.
>
> Ph.P.
>
> System: Mandriva 2009.0,
> NEdit 5.5
> Sep 30, 2004
>
>     Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
>     Built at: Oct  1 2004, 15:55:40
>   With Motif: 2.1.30 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30]
> Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
>       Server: The X.Org Foundation 10402000
>       Visual: 32-bit TrueColor (ID 0x23)
>       Locale: fr_FR.UTF-8
> (from nedit site)
>
>
> Eric Bouyoux a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> No, it still doesn't work, even with the LANG variable set to C (this is
>> what I get at work). I really don't understand why if it works for you.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Eric Bouyoux.
>>
>> Edward A. Berry a écrit :
>>  
>>> Rather than reset LANG on the system,
>>> you can run nedit through a wrapper like my "edit":
>>>
>>>  #!/bin/bash
>>>  LANG=en_US ; nedit $* &
>>>
>>> which i do to avoid the error about unsupported utf8,
>>> but it also allows proper display of é.
>>>
>>> 109% echo $LANG
>>> en_US.UTF-8
>>>
>>>
>>> Ed
>>>
>>>    
>>>>> When I use accents (such as é), I get something like 'é'.
>>>>> I use more or less the same nedit version at work under Centos 5
>>>>> without
>>>>> any problem (I don't know the LANG values of my CentOS configuration,
>>>>> nor the Motif version).
>>>>>         
>>>> This really sounds like a utf8 problem. Please set the LANG value to
>>>> something appropriate (nedit doesn't support utf8).
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>     
>>
>>
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