Re: German umlauts in japanese RedHat 6.2 don't work

[Mike Fabian <mfabian@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Fabian <mfabian@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Mike> kterm. For example, when displaying English man-pages in
>     Mike> kterm
> 
>     Mike>    ~$ LANG=C man man
> 
>     Mike> I see a linefeed at all places where a line ends with a
>     Mike> hyphen (-),
> 
> I haven't noticed this; I'll have to take a look.  I do read manpages
> all the time in kterms, though; maybe Debian messes with the configs.
> Hmm ... nope, line-ending hyphens are fine.  _However_, they are all
> "hard" hyphens (ie, the word contains a hyphen as normally spelled).
> Maybe this only happens on soft hyphens (inserted for the purpose of
> better line-breaking)?

It happens only on soft hyphens. I could not yet find out why.

> Anyway "ugly" is different from "can't" -- can rxvt handle both Japanese
> and German in the same window?

I don't think so, it can handle both, but not in the same window.

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Mike Fabian   <mfabian@example.com>