Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

From: Jan C. Nordholz (jckn_at_gmx.net)
Date: 08/30/05

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    On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:25:09PM +0200, Jan C. Nordholz wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > debian package changelogs are encoded in Unicode, where every character
    > with an ASCII value > 128 is represented as two bytes. To properly read
    > such files, invoke a terminal emulator in Unicode mode - e.g. xterm has a
    > wrapper script "uxterm" which does just that, provided you have configured
    > at least one UTF locale ('locale -a' shows all configured locales, and
    > 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' will let you re-choose).

    PS: The libc6 package contains a binary "iconv" which lets you convert
    files from one encoding to another, eliminating the need to reconfigure
    your terminal emulators... so

    zcat /usr/share/doc/.../changelog.Debian.gz | iconv -f utf-8 -t iso8859-15 | less

    should do the trick.

    Regards,

    Jan 

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Jan C. Nordholz
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