At Sun, 13 May 2001 21:04:45 +0200 (CEST), Cyrille Artho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Debian 2.2r3 (installed from scratch, up-to-date), I cannot see any > > > iso_8859_1 characters on my xterm. All the other characters (ASCII set) > > > appear fine, but the man iso_8859_1 page shows nothing. > > > > check your /etc/locale.gen . If you did not run locale-gen, > > iso8859-1 does not appear on your terminal. > > > Hi, > while I have an /etc/locale.alias, I do not have an /etc/locale.gen > file. What format does it have? Man locale.gen showed no match.
Sorry, /etc/locale.gen only exist on the sid/woody. Debian 2.2r3 does not have /etc/locale.gen... Can you display ISO-8859-1 characters with `xfontsel' ? > Also, all my locale settings are currently set to "POSIX". Should it be > "en_US" instead? "POSIX" is same as "C" locale. "en_US" is different with "C"/"POSIX", but if you live on US, the difference is small. > Finally, as a user, I would strongly appreciate if the standard > installation would at least enable iso8859-1, or maybe ask the user, or > possibly deduce from the time zone info what locale(s) the user might > need. The latter works quite well for Europe, if a city is chosen. That is debian-boot issue, but I agree with this. I forgot the current sid boot-floppy is ready for the locale setting. Do someone work it? Regards, -- GOTO Masanori
