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Date:      Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:11:34 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
Cc:        Gnome-FreeBSD List <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: problem setting language in gdm2.4
Message-ID:  <1065334294.385.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031005055648.GA1402@gforce.johnson.home>
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On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 01:56, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:43:14AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>=20
> > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 01:30, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:19:02AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 01:01, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:26:33AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 23:35, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > 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
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Looks like gdm-2.4.4.x changed things.  Look for ~/.dmrc.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have that one.  Here are the contents:
> > > > >
> > > > > [Desktop]
> > > > > Session=3Dgnome
> > > >
> > > > Try adding:
> > > >
> > > > Language=3Den_US.ISO_8859-1
> > > >
> > > > And see if that helps.
> > >
> > > I tried it, but no joy.  When I logged in with gdm, I got the
> > > following message in a dialog box:
> > >
> > >         Language en_US.ISO_8859-1 does not exist.
> > >         Using System default.
> > >=20
> > > Of course, that brings me right back where I was.
> >=20
> > Try:
> >=20
> > en_US.ISO8859-1
>=20
> That works!
>=20
> I went ahead and removed the Language line from ~/.dmrc and edited the
> gdm locale.alias file to change en_US.ISO-8859-1 to en_US.ISO8859-1 to
> make sure that gdm would handle it correctly.  It did.  After I logged
> in, the Language entry was back in my ~/.dmrc file and digraphs work in
> vim in a gnome-terminal again.
>=20
> Looking at what is in /usr/share/locale, I guess all of those entries in
> the gdm locale.alias file are incorrect.

They have been obsoleted in -CURRENT.  I'll go ahead and patch them.

Joe

>=20
> Thanks for your help.
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