[Gvsig_english] my last question on font-encoding before Easter

[Wolfgang Qual]

Dear list,
well, this will be my last question to you all regarding font-encoding before 
Easter. I would be very very happy, if you could send me a short reply on 
this.

It seems, as if my machine is set to use utf-8 as standard encoding. Ok. 
Now, I would like to create a new theme, new shapefile in gvSIG. I go to View 
> new layer > new shapefile. Digitize some points and use the field 
calculator to put some strings into my attribute table. However, it is not 
possible there to "calculate" german umlauts. This is bad. But is this a bug 
of gvSIG? Actually, I tried to set $LANG on the command line to iso-8859-1, 
but that did not help at all.  
Any ideas?

At least, I have found two intersting links on font-encoding and how to change 
the encoding for a textfile under linux.

1) display font-encoding using firefox or mozilla:
--> 
http://developers.sun.com/global/technology/standards/reference/faqs/determining-file-encoding.html

2) change font-encoding for a textfile using a linux-command line: 
http://mediakey.dk/~cc/howto-convert-text-file-from-utf-8-to-iso-8859-1-encoding/

Happy Easter to you all.
Best,
Wolfgang