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Date:      Sat, 4 Oct 2003 22:35:21 -0500
From:      Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        Gnome-FreeBSD List <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: problem setting language in gdm2.4
Message-ID:  <20031005033521.GA820@gforce.johnson.home>
In-Reply-To: <1065286600.27243.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <20031004045826.GA1198@gforce.johnson.home> <1065286600.27243.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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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



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