Displaying accents

Hi all,

This is my first post so kick my butt if I do something wrong!

I'm having some issues in displaying accents, in some cases... I have no problem seeing accents in Mail or in web pages, or even wherever I can produce then (textedit for instance), but some softwares don't seem to like it.
I realised this while trying to use French subtitles in VLC, where é appeared as a ?. Looking at the same file with emacs, the é appear as \351, becomes <E9> when using less (and, in this case, was actually È in textedit, even though if I write the é myself in it, it is properly displayed). (I realise while writing this that I had once a problem with accents when transferring .tex files from Linux to mac...)

I guess this has to do with some encoding issues, but I wouldn't know what exactly... How could I fix this?

Thanks!

Perhaps the applications are to localized for French?

MacsWork said:

Perhaps the applications are to localized for French?

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The thing is that I didn't have this issue with my previous mac using the same softwares...

No, it's not the same software as your previous Mac. You have upgraded your operating system. The problem is probably caused by the developers of the other software not catching up to OS10.6.2 or the fact that you have not upgraded their software yet. Check with each one to see if they have updates intended to be compatible with Snow Leopard.

toMACsh said:

No, it's not the same software as your previous Mac. You have upgraded your operating system. The problem is probably caused by the developers of the other software not catching up to OS10.6.2 or the fact that you have not upgraded their software yet. Check with each one to see if they have updates intended to be compatible with Snow Leopard.

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Ah OK. Sounds reasonable.
But I'm not sure I get why it wouldn't work when doing less in a terminal though...

Thanks!

Máybe Option+e+a will displáy your required áccent?

Now go through the rest of the keyboard find the others? å ß ∂ ƒ © ˙ ∆ ˚ ¬ Ω ≈ ç √ ∫ ˜µ ≤ ≥ ÷ etc?

harryb2448 said:

Máybe Option+e+a will displáy your required áccent?

Now go through the rest of the keyboard find the others? å ß ∂ ƒ ©*˙ ∆ ˚ ¬ Ω ≈ ç √ ∫ ˜µ ≤*≥ ÷ etc?

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Yes, this works fine. The problem is just that, in some cases, accents already contained in files are not displayed. But the accents are there and appear well if I open those files with a software that likes them...

Thanks.

Try using a French keyboard may be the go. Purchased a used 1400 laptop years ago from the French Embassy in Peking ( as it then was) with all accents etc included on the keyboard. Also French Office etc may do the trick?