Re: [SL] Trouble entering unicode characters

[Rolf S. (tokon) <in...@to...>]

Stuart Luppescu schrieb:
> I would, but I don't know how to enter such characters. I can use my
> input method editor (scim) to input unicode directly, but I don't know
> how to enter Latin1.

I hope I understand correctly that you work on a Linux client and use 
Scim to enter text into the web browser. So maybe the HTTP request isn't 
sent in the correct charset to the server. I'm not sure about that, but 
I got similar error messages when I tried to restore a Latin1 backup 
into a Unicode database. I hope an SQL-Ledger insider knows more.
(Me, I've installed SQL-Ledger on OpenSUSE, but work on a Windows 
client. Because I live in Switzerland, I'm lucky to have the French 
characters on my keyboard. For other languages I just switch the 
keyboard definition, on Linux too, and never had troubles with that. If 
you switch to Swiss-French layout, press ";" for "é", "'" for "à" and 
"[" for "è".)

The other problem to consider is how you can print unicode characters to 
PDF and postscript. That's a LaTeX problem that I was not yet able to 
solve. Because of that I created a Latin1 database after a few tests 
with unicode.
At your place I would connect a Windows client, enter some French words 
and check if your templates work properly, before you use too many time 
in editing your database.