> > Also, why isn't latin1 or UTF-8 default after installation? > A.) Debian is a multilingual distribution. Why not latin2 or Japanese > encodings?
OK, but then still: why not UTF-8? That's not Western-European biased, is it? > B.) In the new glibc you have to create the locales you need: > B.1) Uncomment the lines you need in /etc/locale.gen > B.2) Execute (as root) /usr/sbin/locale-gen Done so. > First try the new locales on a console, for instance > LANG=de_DE date > or your language till you see the messages in German. Well, neighter nl nor bg (the ones I tried) work, but that's OK, as I don't really want the messages to be translated: I just want to be able to see letters from other languages. > Then add them to /etc/environment or /etc/profile > export LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 > export LC_ALL=de_DE > > The C locales and the Xlib locales are not the same and sometimes they > seem to conflict. Any suggestion? I can do so for both bg and nl (uncommented in /etc/locale.gen, and yes, I did run locale-gen). But if I run `xterm', it says: `Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged'. Ah, now I see what I want: I have to _add_ the line en_US UTF-8 to /etc/locale.gen, and then (after locale-gen) I finally get UTF-8. However, that's still not quite OK, as mutt now still doesn't show mime messages that with ISO-8859-1 coding correctly:(. I'm giving up. > btw, in debian-l10n-spanish we are discussing a move to ISO-8859-15 > (how if not are we going to input and display the Euro?). Is it being > considered by other national groups? What's wrong with UTF-8? (I just don't know anything about this all, but hear that UTF-8 is `the best'). Thanks, -- joostje
