Problem with special chars in general

smokylux · 05-26-2004, 04:46 AM

Hi there!

I've got the following problem:

Was working on a php script, and noticed, that in a string, the ZDE (Zend Development Environment) didn't proper display chars like "é" and "è", and so on... Thought it was a config problem in ZDE itself, but it isn't... got the same problem while surfing e.g. with lynx....

The php script was previously saved under Windows, and displayed well in Zend and on the web page as well.... after saving under Linux, the special chars misbehaved....

How can I setup this, so that special chars will be well displayed? Pretty sure, that it has something to do with "encoding" standard, but where to change this??

As it seems to be a general system problem, can anyone help me please?

smokylux

Tinkster · 05-26-2004, 04:53 AM

In the past emacs has proved to be quite clever in
resolving such issues for me via its mule-environment.

Load buffer, emacs usually does a great job at picking
up the encoding used, select save buffer as from mule,
and voila! :)

Cheers,
Tink

smokylux · 05-26-2004, 05:08 AM

Thx!

That will be a solution for "correcting" scripts that should already be up and running.... that doesn't solve my general display problem.... e.g. while surfing with lynx... Noticed the problem in Mozilla too.... not quite as bad as in lynx, but still many special chars aren't displayed!

But it's a good start

Any idea on how to change the system-wide encoding, so that I won't have to open emacs for all my scripts written before?

smokylux

Tinkster · 05-26-2004, 05:10 AM

What's your locale set to?

I have LC_ALL=POSIX ;)

Cheers,
Tink

smokylux · 05-26-2004, 05:21 AM

Hmmmm, as I'm pretty much a newbie to Linux, can you explain me please, where exactly I can find this setting?

Thx!

Tinkster · 05-26-2004, 05:32 AM

Open a shell ... type

env | grep LC_

Cheers,
Tink

smokylux · 05-26-2004, 05:46 AM

That gives me no output at all....

just entering "env" I got somewhere the line: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 but nothing with LC_

Note: Just changed my /etc/sysconfig/i18n file and replaced en_US.UTF-8 with en_US.ISO-8859-1 as system language, before typing env... This would be Western European encoding wouldn'it?

Is there something wrong with the syntax? (means: is it ISO... or iso...)

Do I have to reboot for changes to have effect?

Is this the right thing to do?