From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 20:35:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD2516A4B3 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 20:35:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remt21.cluster1.charter.net (remt21.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56DE43FE5 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 20:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@charter.net) Received: from [24.158.214.251] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by remt21.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 14649608; Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:35:22 -0400 Received: by gforce.johnson.home (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CF02D6184; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 22:35:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 22:35:21 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20031005033521.GA820@gforce.johnson.home> Mail-Followup-To: Joe Marcus Clarke , Gnome-FreeBSD List References: <20031004045826.GA1198@gforce.johnson.home> <1065286600.27243.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1065286600.27243.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Gnome-FreeBSD List Subject: Re: problem setting language in gdm2.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 03:35:24 -0000 On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:56:40PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 00:58, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > I tried to set my language to "American English" in gdm2.4.4.3 but > > it gives an error the "en.US" is not found and it uses the system > > default. The problem with that is the system default does not show > > all of the characters. This is particularly a problem with trying > > to use digraphs in vim running in a gnome-terminal. Setting the > > language in gdm used to do the right thing. > > > > Any ideas? Thanks. > > I just did this, and it worked (i.e. it set LANG to en_US.ISO_8859-1). > Check your /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/locale.aliases file to see what American > English is mapped to. The following is grepped from locale.alias in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm: English(American) en_US.UTF-8,en_US.ISO_8859-1 -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net