From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 22:43:20 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 1C86B16A4BF for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 22:43:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3410B43FF2 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 22:43:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu74-159-108.nc.rr.com [24.74.159.108])h955exVx006112; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 01:40:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) h955hANS008358; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 01:43:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Glenn Johnson In-Reply-To: <20031005053046.GA916@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> <1065331142.385.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031005053046.GA916@gforce.johnson.home> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-2S9ouC4mYgJntog4MY5A" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1065332594.385.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:43:14 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com 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 05:43:20 -0000 --=-2S9ouC4mYgJntog4MY5A Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 01:30, Glenn Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:19:02AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > > 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: > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > I have that one. Here are the contents: > > > > > > [Desktop] > > > Session=3Dgnome > >=20 > > Try adding: > >=20 > > Language=3Den_US.ISO_8859-1 > >=20 > > And see if that helps. >=20 > I tried it, but no joy. When I logged in with gdm, I got the following > message in a dialog box: >=20 > Language en_US.ISO_8859-1 does not exist. > Using System default. >=20 > Of course, that brings me right back where I was. Try: en_US.ISO8859-1 Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-2S9ouC4mYgJntog4MY5A 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/f69yb2iPiv4Uz4cRAqkfAJ426wHXh37tY3i3qRJTIpcwe2H4dQCgodHh 9GNQAjjcLzjakhNIw/PKqQ4= =5OEd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-2S9ouC4mYgJntog4MY5A--