Re: [tlug] UTF-8 for single-byte character sets

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 20:34:33 +0900, Ulrich Plate <plate@example.com> wrote to
tlug@example.com:

> Meaning you can read and write French and Japanese in one and the same
> message, and when you reply it doesn't make entire lines disappear from
> the quoted section? 

That I can't tell. I did say that it *understands* unicode, meaning that an
e-mail written in unicode is displayed correctly.

As for multilingual *input*, I really can't help you :(

I ./configured with --enable-gpgme, ran make and make install. No fuss.

> Godwin, that's great news, but I'll definitely need help with the
> installation. From what everyone on the sylpheed ML said I gathered that
> 0.8.9 was already supposed to support UTF-8, but I never managed to get
> it to work.

Join the club :)

> Do I need to run sylpheed in a special locale, or use specific compile
> time options?

I run "LC_ALL=en_IE@example.com sylpheed" and I get full 8-bit support with the
¤uro character and an English interface. UTF-8 encoded mails sent in French
are decoded correctly with words such as "obligé" no longer being displayed
as "obligé".

I have not yet had the chance to see a mixture of, say, French and Japanese
in a mail, and I wouldn't be able to tell real Japanese from mojibake
anyway. But if you want to find out how to compose such a mail and send it
to me I can send you back a screenshot of what I get.

> What fonts are you using?

Right now:

widget_font=
message_font=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-130-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15
normal_font=-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*
bold_font=-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-*,-*-*-bold-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*
small_font=-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1

This is obviously no good for languages requiring 2-byte character sets. I
do have a few fonts with such character sets if needed for the purposes of
testing.

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