topic Re: Character representation problem. in Operating System - HP-UX

Character representation problem.

Rui Vilao — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:07:05 GMT

Greetings,

I have imported an ASCII file to HP-UX 11i containing characters with like ?? or ?? ...

On one HP box they appear correctly.
On another they appear wrong (different).

Any idea how I control the character set (?).

TIA,

Kind Regards,

Rui.

Re: Character representation problem.

Jeff Machols — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:11:24 GMT

check to see if you have an evironment variable LANG that is pointing to the wrong character set

Re: Character representation problem.

Rui Vilao — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:33:28 GMT

Jeff,

Thanks for your suggestion but Idon??t think that this is the problem because on both machines I have:

LANG: Parameter not set.

Re: Character representation problem.

Suhas_3 — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 06:57:44 GMT

Hi,

Apart from LANG, there are other variables that influence the language options in HP-UX.
Please refer to the following extracts from "man environ" -
LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME

LC C_TYPE defines the character set to be used. If the above variables are not set, they are set to default. In that case, you may check what exactly this default is.

Thanks,
Suhas

Re: Character representation problem.

Wodisch — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 07:25:43 GMT

Hello Rui,

have you checked wether you are using the same character font (X-Windows font) to display that text?

Just a guess,
Wodisch