Real ISO-8859-15 support or just an `alias' to 8859-1 ?

[Patrick Lamaiziere]

Le Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:49:31 +0100,
David Demelier <demelier.david at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hello,

Hello,

> I can't write these characters '€' 'œ' using ISO-8859-15 locales, in 
> fact the 'œ' character is replaced with '½'.
> 
> As you can see here http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-15 the œ 
> character should be replaced with ½, so i'm guessing if the locales
> are really using ISO-8859-15 and not only 8859-1
> 
> These problems were reported on xterm / urxvt with or without vim.

I think the problem is the font.

It works fine using an iso8859-* in xterm, by example:
$ xterm -font '-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*'

Works fine with Terminal too.

> My locales :
> 
> markand at Melon ~ $ locale
> LANG=fr_FR.ISO8859-15
> LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
> LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
> LC_TIME="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
> LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
> LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
> LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
> LC_ALL=

looks good, I use:
~$ locale
LANG=fr_FR.ISO8859-15
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.ISO8859-15"
LC_ALL=fr_FR.ISO8859-15

Regards.