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Subject: Re: problem with german umlauts and gtk apps (maybe unicode issue)
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2011-06-08 21:57, Alexander Best skrev:
> hi there,

Hallo

> for me the output of `locale -a` looks like this:
>
> LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-15
> LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15
> LC_COLLATE="en_GB.ISO8859-15"
> LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO8859-15
> LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.ISO8859-15
> LC_MONETARY=de_DE.ISO8859-15
> LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.ISO8859-15"
> LC_ALL=

What is the reason for setting that?

I only set this in the .login_conf;

me:\
         :charset=iso-8859-1:\
         :lang=sv_SE.ISO8859-1:

And all is fine and dandy, except gqview only understands utf-8