Re: multilanguage environment

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 08:39 AM, Björn Gohla wrote:

> On Monday 22 April 2002 05:14, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
> >   From my little experience,
> >   if you get * for every non-latin character,
> >   you have to set the correct encoding in your environment variable
> > GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING.
> >   And the GNUstep-base should handle it correctly.
>
> i am kind of wondering why i should have to set GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING
> anyway, as the problematic strings are read from a gnustep escape coded
> property list, which gnustep should be able to read regardless. as 
> gnustep
> always knows the internal encoding of strings (i assume) and NSString s 
> are
> transparently convertable to unicode (i assume again), it should have no
> trouble finding a font to show the string, even if that meant using the 
> rough
> looking misc-fixed-* unicode fonts.

You set GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING because it tells GNUstep how you want 
character
strings to be output ... ie what the display mechanism you are using 
understands.

eg. If you are working in a window which is expecting to deal with UTF8 
data,
you need to tell GNUstep to produce UTF8 output.