report display oddity

[Reinke Bonte]

Sorry, my fault. I have actually the same problem when using the the
en_GB.utf8 locale.

On 29 Jan 2003 00:17:39 -0500
Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Reinke Bonte <reinke.bonte at web.de> writes:
> 
> > Have you tried to create an alias, as I described earlier? Are you
> > using a unicode font? As far as I know, there are two pound
> > characters defined in unicode, one single-byte and one multi-byte
> > pound character. en_GB.UTF8 seems to define the multi-byte character
> > as currency symbol, so you need a font that can display this
> > character.
> 
> no, I didn't try to create the alias.  It's quite possible a font
> problem on my (admittedly US-centric) machine.  I _did_ see the pound
> character but it was preceded by one or two garbage characters.  Not
> surprisingly, they were the SAME garbage characters as in gtkhtml.
> 
> So, if it truly is a font/locale-alias issue, then this would imply
> that gtkhtml is not localized properly.  If, as you say, the
> multi-byte currency symbols work fine if the locale aliases are
> present, then I find it strange/amusing that I'm getting the same
> non-multibyte "display" with the un-aliased locale...
> 
> -derek
> 
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