Bug#430913: evince: Evince fails to remember "Print Setup" settings

Kevin Brown kevin at sysexperts.com
Fri Jun 29 18:25:52 UTC 2007


Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:20:07AM +0200, Kevin Brown wrote:
>> Hmm...well, my locale is "POSIX".  In other words, I don't set one.  The 
>> reason I don't set one is that terminal programs such as xterm aren't 
>> aware of UTF-8 and don't properly render certain punctuation characters 
>> when the locale is set to en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> xterm's supported UTF-8 for several years (the "uxterm" script is an
> example of how to set it up).
> 
> regarding "certain punctuation characters", your comment gives no clues.

Oh, excellent, that's exactly what I needed.  That option wasn't widely 
available on Linux when I first ran into this problem.

The "certain punctuation characters" include, but are not limited to, 
hyphens, quotes, and apostrophes.


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Kevin Brown					      kevin at sysexperts.com





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