Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 22:35:21 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Gnome-FreeBSD List <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: problem setting language in gdm2.4 Message-ID: <20031005033521.GA820@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <1065286600.27243.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20031004045826.GA1198@gforce.johnson.home> <1065286600.27243.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:56:40PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 00:58, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > I tried to set my language to "American English" in gdm2.4.4.3 but > > it gives an error the "en.US" is not found and it uses the system > > default. The problem with that is the system default does not show > > all of the characters. This is particularly a problem with trying > > to use digraphs in vim running in a gnome-terminal. Setting the > > language in gdm used to do the right thing. > > > > Any ideas? Thanks. > > I just did this, and it worked (i.e. it set LANG to en_US.ISO_8859-1). > Check your /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/locale.aliases file to see what American > English is mapped to. The following is grepped from locale.alias in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm: English(American) en_US.UTF-8,en_US.ISO_8859-1 -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net
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