Pardon me for jumping in - I just joined this list. I have been playing with Chinese computing under Debian /Linux but have been confused by the topic of locales.
I couldn't get applications to display characters consistently, so started looking into locales ... I found that my locale settings were all -- without my having done anything explicit -- set to zh_TW.big5. My only guess was that perhaps the Debian Chinese Panel application had done this, but I am not sure. I finally figured out how to reset locale values; however, most international characters in Netscape (French, Spanish characters with accents) show up as Chinese characters. And it seems that it is a *pair* of alphabetic chars (the 'ca' in the word 'Francais' for example) that is being translated to a Chinese character - which makes sense since Chinese characters are double byte. But I don't know how to get Netscape to *not do this*. It isn't language or font settings in Netscape ... it isn't locale settings. What could it be? I asked in debian-users and in the #debian chat channel on irc.openprojects.net, but the question was ignored. :-( Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community SCIFI.COM At 10:19am on Wed, 28 Feb 2001, ha shao wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:34:08AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Can you unset all the Chinese locale related environments? It seems > > > that you still have Chinese messages. From some ptrace I got, it seems > > > the problem is gettext related. So ... > > > > > > > Thanks, it works after I unset all of the locale setting related > > to "zh_TW.Big5". But other problems have happened again, and > > I am in trouble again. I remeber when I upgrade the "potato" > > to "unstable", whenever there is a error message like this > > ( dpkg error). I just run "dpkg --cofigure -a" or go to the > > /var/cache/apt/archieves/ to directly use "dpkg -i package" to > > correct the error messages. But know, either way can not work. > > Can I get more information about this kind of error messages? Or > > is there exist any kind of methods which can be used to trace > > this kind of errors? > > I don't really understand you here. I am not really familiar with dpkg. > I suggestion is for now, wrap apt-get arounnd a script, unset locale > before running apt-get in the script. I think there is a dpkg mailing > list. You might have better luck there. > > -- > Best regard > hashao > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
