charsets in OS4

Hi all,

Is there a way to override the charset of a certain application not to be the one that is defined in locale settings?
The "charset" env var on my system is ISO-8859-8, so the latin character with accents that are in the range of Hebrew chars of that charset are obviously displayed in hebrew.
I have an app I would like to display text using the latin accented chars. The app uses Reaction gui
I tried to "setenv charset ISO-8859-1" and run it form that shell with no effect

Thanks,
Jack

@Jack

Yes, ideally the app author needs to do it (in fact, the app author may have to do it)

It's a simple WINDOW_CharSet tag.

The alternative is to specify the charset on the end of the font name, eg Topaz_ISO-8859-1

If you are not able to change the font and aren't the app author, you're stuck unless you can get the author to add the charset tag and some configuration to allow the user to specify it.

@Chris

Right on the spot! Hardcoding the "DejaVu Sans_ISO-8859-1.font" into the app did the trick.
Huge thanks!

Will add option to select a font later...

Jack

@Jack

Just a note here, it's not generally a good idea to force character sets on people, they may have their own setting they want to use. Make the default their locale settings, with the option to change.

Simon

@Rigo

Certainly. It's temporary (will add an option to setup this before the release).
Now related question: is there a way to query the list of allavailable charsets?
I'm using AREXX btw.

BTW: just found "c:charsetconvert", might proove useful

Jack