Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:54:14 +0200 From: Richard =?utf-8?B?xIxlcGFz?= <rch@richard.eu.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: utf-8 locales in freebsd ? Message-ID: <20020119105414.GR77146@richard.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020119102224.GA6408@foo31-249.visit.se> References: <20020119063710.GA2750@foo31-249.visit.se> <20020119093102.GO77146@richard.eu.org> <20020119102224.GA6408@foo31-249.visit.se>
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On Sat Jan 19 11:22:24 2002 +0100 Martin Karlsson wrote:
>Hi! I lost you halfway trough, hope you don't mind helping me out :)
>
>On Sat Jan 19, 2002 at 11:31:02AM +0200, Ricardas Cepas wrote:
>[...snip...]
>> You need to do something like this using your locale name, LOCALEDIR is
>> /usr/share/locale:
>> install -d ${LOCALEDIR}/lt_LT.UTF-8/
>> ln -fs ../la_LN.ASCII/LC_COLLATE ${LOCALEDIR}/lt_LT.UTF-8/LC_COLLATE
>> mklocale -o ${LOCALEDIR}/lt_LT.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE attached_file/lt_LT.UTF-8.src
>> grep -v '^#'
>> <your_date_definition_file_converted_with_iconv_to_utf-8_lt_LT.UTF-8.src.new >${LOCALEDIR}/lt_LT.UTF-8/LC_TIME
>[...snip...]
>
>I successfully made it up to "grep -v '^#'". The output of that command
>appears to be... well, nothing. I'm pretty sure I've misunderstood you.
>
>Then, after having converted /usr/share/locale/sv_SE.ISO_8859-1/LC_TIME
>(iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 ...LC_CTIME > sv.SE.UTF-8.src.new), I
>understood I was supposed to run the above "mklocale..."-command (with
>LC_TIME instead of LC_COLLATE). When I try that, I get "Lex is
>skipping...[one char at the time], syntax error.
>
>Please help me get back on track!
>
Here is my commands another way around:
/home/rch #su3# mkdir /usr/share/locale/sv_SE.UTF-8
/home/rch #su3# iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 </usr/share/locale/sv_SE.ISO8859-1/LC_TIME >/usr/share/locale/sv_SE.UTF-8/LC_TIME
/home/rch #su3# LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 date
Lör 19 Jan 2002 12:37:46 EET
# now we have date working. Note - the above command output may look with to characters instead of accented o if you terminal is iso 8859-1. If you have FreeBSD before 4.5, your locale is named sv_SE.ISO_8859-1, not sv_SE.ISO8859-1
# Going with LC_CTYPE, assuming that you have saved ctype source file I had attached in previous messate in /tmp/
/home/rch #su3# mklocale -o /usr/share/locale/sv_SE.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE /tmp/lt_LT.UTF-8.src
/home/rch #su3# echo $?
0
# it ok, now we need LC_COLLATE but FreeBSD don't have it for multibyte locales, so do fake symlink instead:
/home/rch #su3# ln -fs ../la_LN.ASCII/LC_COLLATE /usr/share/locale/sv_SE.UTF-8/LC_COLLATE
/home/rch #su3# ls -l /usr/share/locale/sv_SE.UTF-8/
total 273
lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 25 Sau 19 12:46 LC_COLLATE@ -> ../la_LN.ASCII/LC_COLLATE
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 264323 Sau 19 12:44 LC_CTYPE
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 373 Sau 19 12:37 LC_TIME
Now try something:
/home/rch #su3# LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 gimp
Hmm, it messages doesn't look good in different charset.. You need to install devel/gettext-devel:
/usr/ports/devel/gettext-devel #su3# cd /usr/ports/devel/gettext-devel/
/usr/ports/devel/gettext-devel #su3# make WANT_FULL_GETTEXT=1
/usr/ports/devel/gettext-devel #su3# make install WANT_FULL_GETTEXT=1
Now edit /usr/local/share/gettext/intl/config.charset and add:
sv_SE.UTF-8 UTF-8
in that file, the library accompanying gnu gettext is dumb enough not figure that from LANG.
Enjoy!
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