From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 9 11:30:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0BF37B402 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 11:30:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 16ZdCl-000765-00; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 20:30:35 +0100 Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g19Ij0C10586 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 19:45:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: is this character encoding or corrupted text? Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 18:45:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200202091502.g19F2ri64142@lists.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Langille wrote: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=292893+0+archive/2001/cvs- > all/20010429.cvs-all > > In the log, the name "Matthias Kvppe" appears. Is that the correct name? That is probably "Matthias Köppe" (ISO 8859-15) with the top bit cut off. Or "Matthias Koeppe" in transcription. > My next question is how to properly handle these characters. First you need to figure what the original character was. Since you can't tag CVS logs and such with character sets, you'll then have to come up with an ASCII transcription according to the rules of the originating language. (Alternatively people could agree to use UTF-8, but FreeBSD support for that is painfully weak. And you'd still have to convert from whatever original character set to UTF-8.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message