Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:11:16 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Sven Esbjerg <esbjerg@xbsd.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: utf8 xterm problems Message-ID: <1101676276.49651.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20041128210501.GA76115@esbjerg.name>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 22:05 +0100, Sven Esbjerg wrote: > I am having some problems with xterm started from the gnome-panel allways > using utf8 as character set. > I have created a user defined launcher on the panel with the following > command: > /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -fa monospace -fs 10 > and I have logged in via gdm using danish as the language. > When I start an xterm from the panel it allways uses utf8. I have tried > adding +lc to the command without luck. If I use +lc from an allready running > xterm that uses utf8 it will adhere to my shell LANG which is iso-8859-1. > I can also start an xterm with +lc from the run menu (Alt+F2) and get the > iso-8859-1 character set. > > Is there a way to tell the gnome-panel to do the right thing? The default character set used by GDM is always UTF-8 if it exists (see /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/locale.alias). If you want a custom locale, edit ~/.gnome2/gdm, and set lang equal to the locale you desire. On your next login, it should be set in gnome-panel. Joe > > Sven Esbjerg -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBqj70b2iPiv4Uz4cRAkqwAJ9/69+Cne5AbrdBPovWD1IZbenvfQCff63q 1z+v4OovqHGcmo+cyuRRWWw= =vCFt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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