Portuguese characters on Redhat 9 in english

fbenites · 10-25-2003, 07:33 PM

I´ve installed Redhat 9 and I´m having some problems to send and receive portuguese characters (like ç, ã, ó) on licq. It´s very strange because I can type them, but people receive a trash character in the place of the real one and I receive a square and don´t receive the next character (no matter if the next is an portuguese one)... If someone can help me I would be very gratefull.

Starchild · 10-26-2003, 06:59 AM

Help, I don't know, sorry, but I think I know the cause of the problem.

RH uses UTF-8 character encoding. Many other systems use ISO-8859 encodings. For ordinary english characters, this isn't a problem. I becomes a problem when you want to use less common or local characters.

I suppose one way or solving the problem would be to change the encoding you use. I think you do it by editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n
I think the alternatives you can use can be found in /usr/lib/locale

Never tried, so I'm not certain.

Good luck!

fbenites · 10-28-2003, 05:29 PM

Thanks, I've found a very simple solution: change the encoding setting on licq... thanks for the help!

Starchild · 10-29-2003, 11:35 AM

Good to hear! That does sound like a better solution

My pleasure!