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diff --git a/src/bin/pgaccess/doc/html/specialchars.html b/src/bin/pgaccess/doc/html/specialchars.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b6b82f2336a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/bin/pgaccess/doc/html/specialchars.html @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +<!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> |