Re: UTF-8-problems; more tolerance for invalid charsets

* Martin Trautmann ([email protected]) wrote [Mon, 070806 16:13]:

> thanks to some excellent help I finally managed to compile slrn
> for linux and Mac.

> Now I feel that some utf problems where fixed, while others are
> even worse than before

[ lot of problems snipped ]

First of all, you'll run into problems reading postings with missing
charset declarations containing umlauts, make sure you have at least
my fallback_charset patch installed.

As you are using a Mac, do you have libiconv installed? If I
remember correctly, the iconv support in OSX is not included in
libc like it is in Linux. If your slrn is not compiled against
libiconv I don't think it will work very good with *any* charset
other than *us-ascii*.

Are you running slrn in a UTF-8 terminal? slrn detects the
termencoding from the locale settings? The locale settings can be
overridden by the undocumented config option "charset Display".
Set this to "iso-8859-15" or "utf-8" depending on you terminal
capabilities.

 Cheers,

  Thomas

-- 
slrn charset patches: http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/

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