Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:43:14 -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: <1065332594.385.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> 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>
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--=-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--
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