[H-GEN] UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1

[Troy Piggins]

* Troy Piggins <troy at piggo.com> :

I meant to mention that I tried a quick search of humbug archives
before mailing this, and it appeared the archives were "broken".  I
was getting errors while trying to search.

Today I went back to the archives, and this thread does not appear
there.  Also, when I type a search query the page just comes up with
a blank search page again, even if you query an item I know is
there.

> On most linux distros I've installed, if I enter my location as
> Brisbane, Australia during the install process it automatically
> seems to set locale to UTF-8.

Further to this, I can find no way to change to ISO-8859-1 if I
wanted to.  Seems to be a common Dapper problem from my
google/ubuntuforums searches so far.

> $ locale
> LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
> LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> I am not sure of /all/ of the implications of this, I think most of
> the applications I use from the terminal (mutt, slrn, elinks, 
> midnight-commander etc) all seemed to display characters like
> umlats (?spelling) correctly/better if locale was ISO-8859-1.
> 
> Is this correct?  Or was it a TERM type setting issue?
> 
> What /should/ I be using?

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