On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Tim Howe wrote:
>I think I need my locale set to utf-8, sadly the OpenBSD developers
>have yet to have time to do that kind of thing. There is some info on
>using FreeBSD or NetBSD locale stuff. I think I'll check that out...
Hmm. What is it exactly that you want to do with the locale?
Setting the locale won't change what characters you can display on the
screen. It will change date/time, numeric, and monetary formatting, and
(with some applications) display language (so that you see "Hola, mundo"
instead of "Hello, world" if the application supports the "es" locale), and
it will change the compose-character sequences available under X.
But you can display any character set you want under X, regardless of the
locale, as long as the font you ask for is installed.
I'm not sure about XFree86 4.x, but under 3.3.6, "eo" (Esperanto) isn't one
of the supported locales. It looks like it wouldn't be very hard to add,
though...it looks like mostly it would involve putting together a
compose-character file for ISO-8859-3. There is an "en_US.utf" locale
under 3.3.6, but mine appears to be missing its compose-character file.
- Neil Parker
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