On 17-Sep-03 MJ Ray wrote:
On 2003-09-15 20:09:14 +0100 (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
There's a possible confusion here (apologies if I'm wrong in your case, but what you write sugegsts it). What you call "c-circumflex (Slavic)" is not c-circumflex but c-hacek (the accent is like an upside-down circumflex), as in Czech.
No, I mean c-circumflex from the ISO-8859-3 (Southern European) encoding. Sorry for using the imprecise term "Slavic" (I knew the encording began with S, but didn't look up the proper name).
Hmmm ... 8859-3 was originally designed for Maltese, Turkish (now superseded by 8859-9) and Esperanto. Esperanto is the only place I've ever come across c-circumflex. Hmmm ...
As I'm typing across 3 of the ISO Latin character sets (-1, -3 and -15), I do already have the machine configured for UTF-8, as far as I can tell. Some applications with alternative input methods (yudit, qemacs) can display all the characters, so that's why I think it is an input configuration problem rather than a font problem. I could be wrong.
But you're probably right: I did a little hunt on
"c-circumflex" "utf-8" linux
and was led to
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2002-01/msg00041.html
which doesn't solve the question but does indicate that there are built-in problems (it looks as though that whole mailing list is worth a browse, though it doesn't seem to have a spam filter ... ).
Cheers, Ted.
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