step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-11 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:08:02PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: But I will put it on debian server soon, it is better to have a copy somewhere else. slightly updated version is now also at: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-06 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:02:17AM +1000, Brian May wrote: Radovan == Radovan Garabik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Radovan it is LANGUAGE, and you have to set LANG to something Radovan (which will be ignored in this case, but has to be set). Not only does it have to be set, but it

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-06 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Sep 05, Radovan Garabik scribbled: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:47:26PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: are set to the fixed-misc USC version and it seems to work fine. The only problem I have found is with the Unicode TTF fonts - mkttfdir doesn't generate correct fonts.dir file for those

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-06 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:10:16PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote: I have however other problems with ttf fonts - they are EXTREMELY slow. When I use arialuni.ttf (25MB font with the best unicode coverage) as main font in konqueror,

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-06 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:29:11PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: ** On Sep 05, Radovan Garabik scribbled: use ttmkfdir instead. It still does not generate 10646 encoding in output, but at least it will put there all the encodings that the font covers, and you can add 10646 entry by hand.

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-06 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Sep 06, Radovan Garabik scribbled: [snip] I noticed that it also fails to process fome TTF fonts (check out http://curiosity.de/downloads/fonts/curefonts.zip - most of them get ignored when generating fonts.dir) they are not complete - ttmkfdir generates lines only for encodings

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Brian May
Vociferous == Vociferous Mole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: doesn't look like it to me: [503] [pluto:bam] ~ LANG=en_AU:en_GB dia Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Vociferous From another message (in one of the numerous Vociferous translated

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:03:50PM +1000, Brian May wrote: Vociferous == Vociferous Mole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: doesn't look like it to me: [503] [pluto:bam] ~ LANG=en_AU:en_GB dia Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Vociferous From

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:03:50PM +1000, Brian May wrote: Vociferous == Vociferous Mole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: doesn't look like it to me: [503] [pluto:bam] ~ LANG=en_AU:en_GB dia Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Vociferous From

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Sep 05, Brian May scribbled: Marek == Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marek Or just put LANG=en_GB in /etc/environment Hmmm. Might be worth trying. However, either this is going to override the language chosen by gdm, or gdm is going to override this. Not an ideal

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:47:26PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: are set to the fixed-misc USC version and it seems to work fine. The only problem I have found is with the Unicode TTF fonts - mkttfdir doesn't generate correct fonts.dir file for those AFAICT - all entries have their charset set

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote: I have however other problems with ttf fonts - they are EXTREMELY slow. When I use arialuni.ttf (25MB font with the best unicode coverage) as main font in konqueror, just drawing a page in ASCII takes 2 minutes (PIII 600 MHz). During those 2

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Brian May
Radovan == Radovan Garabik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Radovan it is LANGUAGE, and you have to set LANG to something Radovan (which will be ignored in this case, but has to be set). Not only does it have to be set, but it looks like it can't be set to C: [776] [scrooge:bam]

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
Btw: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO Does not serve any pages to me - it's pingable though. If you've got problems with that server you could put the HOWTO on the debian servers or if that's a problem I'd gladly put it up at our site. *t

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:01:24PM +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: Btw: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO Does not serve any pages to me - it's pingable though. If you've got problems with that server you could put the HOWTO on the debian servers or if

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:12:25AM +1000, Brian May wrote: I am not sure if this is what you meant, but my understanding is that there is far greater support for the _GB locale, rather then the _AU locale: [515] [scrooge:bam] ~ du /usr/share/locale/en_GB 136

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Sep 04, Daniel Burrows scribbled: [snip] - in the configuration screen manually type en_GB, but this doesn't seem to do anything. This may not be the answer you want, but what about adding: export LC_ALL=en_GB or something similar at the front of ~/.xsession? Or just put

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread Brian May
Drew == Drew Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Drew I think I read somewhere in the middle of this discussion Drew that you can use : to make something like LANG=en_AU:en_GB Drew which is supposed to define fallbacks. doesn't look like it to me: [503] [pluto:bam] ~

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread Brian May
Marek == Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marek Or just put LANG=en_GB in /etc/environment Hmmm. Might be worth trying. However, either this is going to override the language chosen by gdm, or gdm is going to override this. Not an ideal solution. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread Vociferous Mole
On 04-Sep-01, 19:34 (EDT), Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drew == Drew Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Drew I think I read somewhere in the middle of this discussion Drew that you can use : to make something like LANG=en_AU:en_GB Drew which is supposed to define

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-03 Thread Brian May
Drew == Drew Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Preparing correct locale: Pick a locale you would use. I decided to use en_GB, you may use something else, the important part is the UTF-8 encoding. 1) generate the locale: # localedef -v -c -i en_GB -f UTF-8

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:12:25AM +1000, Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: How do you get gdm to log you in using a nonstandard locale? I can - select a list of different languages, but not different versions of English - in the configuration screen see a list of default

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-02 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:42:31PM -0500, David Starner wrote: en_AU UTF-8 tells it to make en_AU a UTF-8 locale. If you want en_AU.ISO-8859-1 as well, then add en_AU UTF-8 en_AU.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 this is probably the best idea or (what I would recommmend)

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-02 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:42:31PM -0500, David Starner wrote: en_AU UTF-8 tells it to make en_AU a UTF-8 locale. If you want en_AU.ISO-8859-1 as well, then add en_AU UTF-8 en_AU.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 or (what I would recommmend) en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_AU ISO-8859-1

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Drew Parsons wrote: en_AU UTF-8 tells it to make en_AU a UTF-8 locale. If you want en_AU.ISO-8859-1 as well, then add en_AU UTF-8 en_AU.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 or (what I would recommmend) en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_AU ISO-8859-1 Just out of interest,