How to add a language/charsets to the system and how to use special characters?

[heinlein at madboa.com (Paul Heinlein)]

On 4/26/05 6:36 AM, Olaf Greve wrote:

> Now, UTF-8 ought to support pretty much ALL characters in the world, 
> however, perhaps in my case the set is restricted to solely the 
> characters used in the UK?!?

Your typeface needs to support those characters, too. :-/

> Does anyone know how to test if the special characters are properly 
> installed, and/or how to use them in 'the Windows way'?

Try gnome-character-map.

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