Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 00:01:35 -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: <20031005050135.GA870@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <1065327993.385.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> 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>
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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=gnome -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net
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