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DaGr8Gatzby
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 Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:34 am Post subject: Locales and UTF-8 |
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Quick question: How do I really know my system truly UTf-8?
Output of locale:
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LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
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I have recompiled system and am currently emerging world as I type. Unicode use flag is set. How can I test my system? My USB drive also doesn't want to mount. I am suspecting a UTF-8 and old iso conflict. Any ideas? |
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e-ipi
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: Re: Locales and UTF-8 |
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| DaGr8Gatzby wrote: | Quick question: How do I really know my system truly UTf-8?
How can I test my system? My USB drive also doesn't want to mount. I am suspecting a UTF-8 and old iso conflict. Any ideas? |
I think you can trust locale.
I kind of doubt that the problem with your USB won't mount because of UTF-8. ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so I don't see a conflict there. And even if that were a problem, I think you'd just see funny characters. Are you? What happens when you try to mount your drive? And how are you trying to mount it exactly?
I'm not sure what a true Unicode system would be. Applications will be able to use different encodings anyway, and different users could have different setups at different times. |
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DaGr8Gatzby
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:53 am Post subject: |
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I cannot mount sdb1(which is my keychain). here is the output
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Dreamz david # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/keychain/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
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The REALLY WEIRD part is that before, I could mount just fine before I updated my system. Also, the fdiskable node is accessible. if I fdisk /dev/sdb and print out the partition table, this comes up.
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The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3916.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 1026 MB, 1026555904 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3916 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 3916 1002480 e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
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maxima
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:31 am Post subject: |
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Do you have Codepage 437 under Native Language Support option turned on ?
it's essential for mounting FAT partition |
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DaGr8Gatzby
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| Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:56 am Post subject: |
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That is exactly what I was going to post just now. I think I took off support for nothing BUT Utf-8. I read in the official gentoo doc I need to have support for these locales. I'll recompile my kernel and I will post the results. I'm in the middle of an emerge world. But it's almost done.  |
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DaGr8Gatzby
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:13 am Post subject: |
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-After a kernel recompile I noticed that you need iso-8859-1 encodings(Western and Latin) in order to use FAT. I should have read the documentation closer. However, how can I test out if a file is encoded in UTF-8? Most of my files were created before the conversion.
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file -i test-utf8
test-utf8: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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this was in vim, my .vimrc
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set number
colorscheme desert
set shiftwidth=4
set encoding=utf-8 fileencodings=
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Confused really....but at least the USB drive works... |
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e-ipi
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| DaGr8Gatzby wrote: | -After a kernel recompile I noticed that you need iso-8859-1 encodings(Western and Latin) in order to use FAT. I should have read the documentation closer. However, how can I test out if a file is encoded in UTF-8? Most of my files were created before the conversion.
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Write a file containing several scripts and languages and see if it displays correctly. Unicode is the only practical way to encode something with a bunch of languages in it. Don't worry, no one has to see it. There's nothing to stop you from cutting and pasting, either. If you see all the diacritics and the hangul and Chinese characters, greek letters, and Arabic you put in there, everything is fine. (Keep in mind you'll need a Unicode font to see it)
If you've forgotten all your languages, you can use a test file like this one:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt |
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DaGr8Gatzby
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:54 am Post subject: |
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| Ok USB drive works nice, and UTF-8 test files come out ok but some scripts come out in blocks...I'm doing a recompile with cjk use flag as well. Do you have to take this step? Does anyone know any good fonts? |
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