how to use ISO-8859-1 character set

[Bjørn T Johansen]

On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:31:54 -0500
Mike McNally <emmecinque at gmail.com> wrote:

> well I've got it half-working; xterm and the Xfce terminal don't like
> ISO-8859-1, but Gnome and GTK apps seem OK
> 
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Mike McNally<emmecinque at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm having a hard time getting files with names encoded as ISO-8859-1
> > characters to be properly displayed in prettymuch anything via Xfce.
> > I've got the locale generated, as far as I can tell, but nothing seems
> > to want to render the characters properly.  The Xfce language setup
> > dialog doesn't seem to make character set visible in any way (unless
> > I'm missing something).
> >
> > Does this sound familiar, or is this likely to be a case of me just
> > doing something wrong?
> >
> > I should try an FVWM session because I know I've gotten it to work in
> > that world.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Turtle, turtle, on the ground,
> > Pink and shiny, turn around.
> >
> 
> 
> 

I am using ISO-8859-1 without any problems... What have you done and which distro are you using?


BTJ


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