Re: OT: Orthographic challenges

In the last episode, (On Wednesday 04 July 2007 18:08:59), taliesin the
storyteller wrote:
> * Mark J. Reed said on 2007-07-04 14:10:45 +0200
>
> > On 7/4/07, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> > >* Mark J. Reed said on 2007-07-03 23:26:25 +0200
> > >
> > > > Letting you enter arbitrary Unicode symbols is not PuTTY's
> > > > job.  It just takes what the I/O system hands it.
> > >
> > > The machine it connects to is 100% UTF8, and vim-in-putty
> > > can't even show the UTF8-characters correctly but degrades
> > > to latin1.
> >
> > That's odd.  Do you have
> >
> > 1) PuTTY configured to use UTF-8 as its character set
>
> I have no idea how to do that. Double-checked today too, there's
> no GUI-config for it at least. This is version 0.51 btw, no idea
> if there are any newer.
>
> > 2) Your LC_ variables set to en_US.UTF-8 in the remote shell
>
> US? Ick. I usually use IN or DK, depending on what has been
> compiled, or roll my own. Who'd want US style dates anyhow?
>
Yeah, they are pretty mux ipped. </flamebait> </flamebait>

Jeff
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