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| author | dshaligram <dshaligram@c06c8d41-db1a-0410-9941-cceddc491573> | 2007-11-20 13:36:42 +0000 |
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| committer | dshaligram <dshaligram@c06c8d41-db1a-0410-9941-cceddc491573> | 2007-11-20 13:36:42 +0000 |
| commit | cbaaa32d55fd87eba6882c581db2ac32ef88c3f9 (patch) | |
| tree | c7c89aca11947cf477953eb5138a0b476975c364 /crawl-ref/INSTALL | |
| parent | e3e729a0259c4c89296ac368556563ca096cd3e9 (diff) | |
| download | crawl-ref-cbaaa32d55fd87eba6882c581db2ac32ef88c3f9.tar.gz crawl-ref-cbaaa32d55fd87eba6882c581db2ac32ef88c3f9.zip | |
Allow UNICODE_LOCALE=. in makefile.unix to specify a setlocale(LC_ALL,"") call instead of forcing a specific locale (adapted from Guus' Debian patch). Also fixed some makefile.unix checks to strip variables that are prone to trailing spaces.
git-svn-id: https://crawl-ref.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crawl-ref/trunk@2885 c06c8d41-db1a-0410-9941-cceddc491573
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crawl-ref/INSTALL b/crawl-ref/INSTALL index 4a4ca0c082..5a266f271a 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/INSTALL +++ b/crawl-ref/INSTALL @@ -361,7 +361,18 @@ not UTF-8, you can force it to UTF-8 on most systems by doing "export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8" or the equivalent, depending on your language locale and what shell you're using. +Crawl tries to use en_US.UTF-8 as its default Unicode locale. If you +do not have this locale installed, but do have some other UTF-8 locale, +you can tell Crawl to use your preferred UTF-8 locale by setting +UNICODE_LOCALE = ${foo}.UTF-8 in makefile.unix, where ${foo} is your +locale name. + +You may not want to embed the locale in Crawl itself, but have Crawl +use the locale as set in the environment LC_* variables. In such +cases, you can use UNICODE_LOCALE = . in makefile.unix. Crawl will +then use the locale as set in your environment. + If you're playing Crawl on a remote machine, the remote Crawl should be built with Unicode support, it needs to have a UTF-8 locale installed, *and* your local terminal (where you're running telnet/ssh) needs to be -able to decode UTF-8. +able to decode UTF-8.
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