Re: Font problem with UTF-8 file

My apologies for not responding to this, by the way, but I just haven't had time for 21.5 recently. Ben> evidently the swedish chars get translated into iso-8859-14 I don't understand why they would get translated into ISO 8859/14. There have been scattered complaints about weird translations, though. Ben> and we can't yet render this. i think we don't have unicode Ben> font support, which would do the trick -- i thought we did Ben> but evidently i never wrote it. Ben> stephen, what about your latin-unity package? Doesn't support iso-8859-14, but that's straightforward. If these are in fact a bogus remapping of ISO 8859/1 (or whatever) characters to ISO 8859/14 (ie, they are part of the common subset), latin-unity should fix it. Ben> also, maybe we shouldn't be translating into 8859-14? what Ben> is this charset, anyway? is this for the euro sign or Ben> something? No. AFAIK only ISO-8859-15 has it; -16 may get it but I don't have an authoritative reference for that. According to http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/iso8859/, it's for Celtic (but it also handles many of the main Western European languages, I would guess, surely German, since the sharp S is there). Another useful reference is http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py