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Date:      Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:56:40 -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:  <1065286600.27243.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031004045826.GA1198@gforce.johnson.home>

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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.

Joe

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