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

[David Starkoff]

On 23/06/2006, at 2:42 PM, Troy Piggins wrote:

> $ LANG="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
> $ locale
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or
> directory

Are you sure the first line shouldn't be:

   export LANG=en_AU.ISO8859-1

I think the value of $LANG should correspond to a directory in /usr/ 
share/locale.  That would explain the "No such file or directory" error.

At least for me (which is, admittedly, OS X and not a Linux  
distribution):

   posner:~ dbs$ locale -a | grep en_AU
   en_AU
   en_AU.ISO8859-1
   en_AU.ISO8859-15
   en_AU.US-ASCII
   en_AU.UTF-8

(ISO 8859-15 is, essentially, a refinement of ISO 8859-1, including  
the euro sign but removing the fractions: see <http:// 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-15>.)

> See the /etc/locale.alias:francais above?  Where the 'c' is in
> francais I see a box instead of the character (I know it's not
> really a 'c' but can't remember what it's called).

It's a "c" with a "cedilla": <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedilla>.

-- 
David.