Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:19:02 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> Cc: Gnome-FreeBSD List <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: problem setting language in gdm2.4 Message-ID: <1065331142.385.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20031005050135.GA870@gforce.johnson.home> References: <20031004045826.GA1198@gforce.johnson.home> <1065286600.27243.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031005033521.GA820@gforce.johnson.home> <1065327993.385.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031005050135.GA870@gforce.johnson.home>
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--=-JxPfeVHvHXt7S7htwNns Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 01:01, Glenn Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:26:33AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 23:35, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > Looks like gdm-2.4.4.x changed things. Look for ~/.dmrc. >=20 > I have that one. Here are the contents: >=20 > [Desktop] > Session=3Dgnome Try adding: Language=3Den_US.ISO_8859-1 And see if that helps. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-JxPfeVHvHXt7S7htwNns Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/f6nGb2iPiv4Uz4cRAvdJAJ4nwJI5nl+G2JdgKMVQjZgN0wVfBQCfRkJu SQQloE5GVZv5L9cLq1jhkoQ= =4KKB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-JxPfeVHvHXt7S7htwNns--
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