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Date:      Sat, 03 Jan 1998 17:58:05 +0100
From:      Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
To:        Francisco Reyes <reyesf@super.zippo.com>
Cc:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Empty locale directories. Normal?
Message-ID:  <34AE6E1D.2A533F5F@partitur.se>
References:  <199801031615.IAA16264@super.zippo.com>

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Francisco Reyes wrote:
> 
> On 02 Jan 1998 13:23:38 +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> 
> While trying to see why netscape is still not displaying spanish
> characters I noticed all my locale directories are empty. Is this
> normal? The directories are in /usr/share, /usr/share/local (and a


Not normal. Here's my /usr/share/locale


lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  bin   11 Nov 26 02:09 ascii@ -> lt_LN.ASCII
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 da_DK.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 de_AT.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 de_CH.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 de_DE.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 en_AU.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 en_CA.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 en_GB.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 en_US.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 es_ES.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 fi_FI.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 fr_BE.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 fr_CA.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 fr_CH.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 fr_FR.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 hr_HR.ISO_8859-2/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 is_IS.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 it_CH.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 it_IT.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 ja_JP.EUC/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:28 ja_JP.SJIS/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 ko_KR.EUC/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 lt_LN.ASCII/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 lt_LN.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 lt_LN.ISO_8859-2/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 nl_BE.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 nl_NL.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 no_NO.ISO_8859-1/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 pt_PT.ISO_8859-1/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  bin   11 Nov 26 02:09 ru_RU.CP866@ -> ru_SU.CP866
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  bin   12 Nov 26 02:09 ru_RU.KOI8-R@ -> ru_SU.KOI8-R
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 ru_SU.CP866/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 ru_SU.KOI8-R/
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin  512 Nov 26 02:31 sv_SE.ISO_8859-1/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  bin   11 Nov 26 02:09 us-ascii@ -> lt_LN.ASCII

I do setenv LANG sv_SE.ISO_8859-1 and setenv MM_CHARSET ISO-8859-1
in /etc/csh.login. 
But you need to get the locale files. Not sure of the best way, but they
are probably on the CD, if you have one. 

/palle



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