Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:47:01 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with german umlauts and gtk apps (maybe unicode issue) Message-ID: <4DF0B2B5.3050302@bah.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20110609132149.77846282.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20110608195705.GA60747@freebsd.org> <4DF0AB82.5090109@bah.homeip.net> <20110609132149.77846282.freebsd@edvax.de>
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2011-06-09 13:21, Polytropon skrev:
> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:16:18 +0200, Bernt Hansson<bernt@bah.homeip.net> wrote:
>> 2011-06-08 21:57, Alexander Best skrev:
>>> hi there,
>>
>> Hallo
>>
>>> for me the output of `locale -a` looks like this:
>>>
>>> LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-15
>>> LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15
>>> LC_COLLATE="en_GB.ISO8859-15"
>>> LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO8859-15
>>> LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.ISO8859-15
>>> LC_MONETARY=de_DE.ISO8859-15
>>> LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.ISO8859-15"
>>> LC_ALL=
>>
>> What is the reason for setting that?
>
> The reason is to have finer control over certain
> language aspects. For example, if one wants to have
> collation and date specific settings for the german
> language, but english program messages, LC_* can be
> used to address things individually. LC_ALL sets _one_
> definition for all aspects, and LANG... I think LANG
> will be used if LC_* aren't present... not fully sure.
>
>
>
>> I only set this in the .login_conf;
>>
>> me:\
>> :charset=iso-8859-1:\
>> :lang=sv_SE.ISO8859-1:
>>
>> And all is fine and dandy, except gqview only understands utf-8
>
> I assume this does define LC_* / LANG variables?
It defines LANG=sv_SE.ISO8859-1 no LC*
> I know this setting is present in the system, but I
> never really used login.conf. :-)
login.conf is system wide. .login_conf is not.
Example from xterm
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