On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 11:31 +0200, Pascal Dupuis wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:52:17AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > As far as I know, not specifying the encoding isn't supported at all. > > See: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LANG=fr_FR xterm > > [~] > > Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged > > > > (here i have fr_FR.UTF8 locales generated) > > Here it works flawlessly :) > The tricks seems to be in dpkg-configure locales: > for instance, there are > fr_BE ISO8859-1 > fr_BE.UTF-8 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Notice that the first, 'fr_BE' does not specify an encoding, the '.' > is missing, but there is implicitely one. >
Well, the dot is missing but the encoding is specified. If there is no encoding specified after fr_BE, it defaults to iso 8859-1 > > I'm not really sure it's a bug in xfdesktop packaging. It's a personal > > modification on your side, which shouldn't touch other users (and I'm > > really not sure it will work at all...) > > > > I would say that once every X app is UTF-8 aware, I will start with > LANG as fr_BE.UTF-8. So yes, it's a hack, and yes it's temporary. But > it touchs every person using this kind of hack to have apps not utf-8 > aware running correctly. I run Xfce using iso8859-15 locales without any problem. I just run xfdesktop with fr_FR locales, and it worked, accents are correctly displayed. -- Yves-Alexis Perez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
