Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:21:22 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Setting up a danish locale Message-ID: <20050311172121.GB74913@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Problem: We have a visiting scientist from Denmark, whose laptop
died a horrible death. A colleagued asked if I would loan him
a currently unused system in my office. I've set up FreeBSD 5.3
on the system and everything appears to work except for setting
up a Danish locale.
Disclaimer: I searched the Handbook, used google, and spent a
few hours reading up of login.conf, locale support, etc. But,
we are stuck without the danish locale.
I have setup a ~/,login_conf in the user home directory that
contains
dhcp-78-77:kargl[201] cat .login_conf
me:\
:charset=ISO8859-1:\
:lang=da_DK.ISO8859-1:
When we login, we see that the locale is set
dhcp-78-77:kargl[202] locale
LANG=da_DK.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE="da_DK.ISO8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="da_DK.ISO8859-1"
LC_TIME="da_DK.ISO8859-1"
LC_NUMERIC="da_DK.ISO8859-1"
LC_MONETARY="da_DK.ISO8859-1"
LC_MESSAGES="da_DK.ISO8859-1"
LC_ALL=
But any attempt to enter a danish character in for examples xemacs
fails. From my colleagues comment a "Right-Alt / o" should yield
a lower case "o" with a slash through it. His system is running
Xorg 6.7.0_9. I suspect that I need to change/update his xorg.conf
file. Any insight into setting up the Danish environment would be
appreciate.
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Steve
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