Re: display UTF-8 characters

[Fred Kiefer]

On 16.12.2013 13:11, Moon Elf wrote:
> On 2013-09-21, Nerijus Baliunas <nerijus@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> how do I display UTF-8 characters in gnustep app (SimpleAgenda in my case)?
>> Is it enough to set font with SystemPreferences app? Should I make font 
>> before
>> with mknfonts? My locale is LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nerijus
> 
> You can also use gettext where a function such as 
> _("string-to-be-translated");
> converts a string in several languages. Just compile and link that C library.
> 
> By displaying Strings with [[NSString new] UTF8String] you can display them in
> UTF8 display systems such as Cocoa or GNUStep windows and widgets.
> 
> If you want the same for a _shell_ you use the locale, not counting terminals
> written with UTF8 support on the visual etc.
> 
> ME

To me this questions sounded more like displaying UTF8 characters in the
GNUstep user interface than on the command line. And in the user
interface any sort of characters should do, as long as you have suitable
fonts installed that the cairo backend will detect.

Fred