<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Special locale characters</TITLE> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/3.04Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.32 i586) [Netscape]"> </HEAD> <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#0000EF" VLINK="#51188E" ALINK="#FF0000"> <H1>Special locale characters and PgAccess <HR WIDTH="100%"></H1> <P>The problem is related with some special characters used in different countries because PgAccess did not use fonts with `-ISO8859-1' encoding -- </P> <P>The sollution was proposed by H.P.Heidinger ( hph@hphbbs.ruhr.de) and it's very simple.</P> <P>If you look into PgAccess, you will find fonts declared as follows :</P> <P><TT>$ grep -e '-font' -i pgaccess.tcl<BR> -font -Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* \<BR> -font -Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* \<BR> -font -Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* \<BR> -font -Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* \</TT></P> <P>It should be something like: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1</P> <P>You can achieve this by running the following script :</P> <P><TT>#!/bin/sh<BR> cp pgaccess.tcl pgaccess.tcl-org<BR> cat pgaccess.tcl |\<BR> sed -e's/\-\*\-\*\ /\-iso8859\-1\ /g' |\<BR> sed -e's/\-\*\-\*\}/\-iso8859\-1}/g' |\<BR> sed -e's/\-\*\-\*\]/\-iso8859\-1]/g' |\<BR> sed -e's/\-\*\-\*$/\-iso8859\-1/g' |\<BR> sed -e's/\-Clean\-/\-Fixed\-/g' |\<BR> sed -e's/clean/fixed/g' >pgaccess.iso<BR> mv pgaccess.iso pgaccess.tcl<BR> chmod +x pgaccess.tcl</TT></P> <P>The final version of PgAccess (1.0) will let the user decide what fonts will be used through a "preferences" dialog window.</P> </BODY> </HTML>
