On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 14:24, Marcus Lundblad wrote: > I swithed to using a UTF-8 locale. > It works really nice in FVWM, but gtk (1.2)-based apps displays text as if > it were latin 1. > I set the locale in my .xsession like this: > > export LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 > > If I run "echo $LANG" in rxvt started from a menu in FVWM, it says > sv_SE.UTF-8 but if I start an rxvt from this rxvt and run the same command > it says: > sv_SE.ISO-8859-1 > > This is on RH 7.3 > > Anyone have an idea of what's going on? > By the way, rxvt still lacks UTF-8 support. > > //Marcus
It sounds like your shell's profile is overriding the LANG setting (e.g. /etc/profile)... I personally set the locale in my zshrc, depending on whether I'm in an xterm or the console (because Linux's console UTF-8 support is kind of lacking.) GTK 1.2 apps can be configured to load a Unicode font if you really want to, but I *do not* recommend this, because the entire font will be loaded at once. If you don't use an external font server like xfs, your entire X server will become unusable for a moment while the font is loaded. That said, FVWM 2.5 (using Xft), GTK 2 (again using Xft), and xterm/mlterm all support UTF-8 beautifully. The Xresources I use for xterm (which enable UTF-8 amongst other things) are available at http://themuffin.net/xres/xterm.xresources HTH, -- Ben Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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