Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 00:56:48 -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: <20031005055648.GA1402@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <1065332594.385.6.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> <20031005050135.GA870@gforce.johnson.home> <1065331142.385.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20031005053046.GA916@gforce.johnson.home> <1065332594.385.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:43:14AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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: > > > > > 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=gnome > > > > > > Try adding: > > > > > > Language=en_US.ISO_8859-1 > > > > > > And see if that helps. > > > > I tried it, but no joy. When I logged in with gdm, I got the > > following message in a dialog box: > > > > Language en_US.ISO_8859-1 does not exist. > > Using System default. > > > > Of course, that brings me right back where I was. > > Try: > > en_US.ISO8859-1 That works! I went ahead and removed the Language line from ~/.dmrc and edited the gdm locale.alias file to change en_US.ISO-8859-1 to en_US.ISO8859-1 to make sure that gdm would handle it correctly. It did. After I logged in, the Language entry was back in my ~/.dmrc file and digraphs work in vim in a gnome-terminal again. Looking at what is in /usr/share/locale, I guess all of those entries in the gdm locale.alias file are incorrect. Thanks for your help. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net
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