Hi all Ubuntu linux breezy switched to using UTF-8 as the default encoding. This has created problems for users of Weft QDA - which uses wxruby-0.6.0. When accented characters are encoded in UTF-8, they display brokenly (as you''d expect, with double-byte chars appearing as two wrong characters). But now latin-1 encoded strings with accented characters don''t display at all. This will be solved by wxruby2, but I''m wondering in the meantime if there is some way of temporarily overriding a system''s default locale while running wxruby? The environment variable LC_CTYPE looks relevant, but I don''t have a breezy installed myself so can''t test - anyone had any experience with this? Thanks alex
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 13:27 +0000, Alex Fenton wrote:> This will be solved by wxruby2, but I''m wondering in the meantime if > there is some way of temporarily overriding a system''s default locale > while running wxruby? The environment variable LC_CTYPE looks relevant, > but I don''t have a breezy installed myself so can''t test - anyone had > any experience with this?I have breezy installed, so I might be able to do a quick test if you can tell me what to try. Kevin
> I have breezy installed, so I might be able to do a quick test if you > can tell me what to try. > >Thanks for the offer Kevin. I''ll see how the user gets on with my first suggestions, if no joy I''ll make a simple test case I can send over. alex