V St, 05. 11. 2003 v 14:50, Spider píše: > Ahh, thats very true. Except that I'd still want it documented. Yep, > I'm having a drive for UTF-8 right now, I've ran into places where I > need filenames in UTF-8 and most things have started to break otherwise. > unpleasant compability problems.
These problems are currently discussed in glib bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114068 And there are my ideas, what needs to be done for seamless UTF-8 support: 0) baselayout: Add "official" way to set system default locale: /etc/rc.conf or /etc/env.d/{number}locale (or similar). 1) glibc: Generate UTF-8 locales for all languages, if unicode USE flag is on. Either as patch, or ex-post: for i in ...... ; do localedef -i $i -f UTF-8 -u charids.894 $i.UTF-8 done 2) Enable UTF-8 locales in GDM: Two alternatives: # Create UTF-8 for all locales. sed 's:\([^ ]*\)\([ ][ ]*\)\(.*\)UTF-8,\(.*\):\1 \2\4,\3UTF-8\ \1(UTF-8)\2\3UTF-8,\4:g' <config/locale.alias | sed 's:^\([^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ]\)*(UTF-8):& :' >config/locale.alias~ mv config/locale.alias~ config/locale.alias # Prefer non UTF-8 for all locales. sed 's:\([^ ]*\)\([ ][ ]*\)\(.*\)UTF-8,\(.*\):\1 \2\4,\3UTF-8:g' <config/locale.alias | sed 's:^\([^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ][^ ]\)*(UTF-8):& :' >config/locale.alias~ mv config/locale.alias~ config/locale.alias 3) Grab Redhat patches for most problematic applications (mc, slang, maybe ncurses). Setting language mini HOWTO: LANG LANG sets overall NLS support. Use LANG in form cs_CZ, cs_CZ.UTF-8 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Avoid cs (X does not like it), cs_CZ.utf8 (again - X doesn't like it) and czech (X and some old apps does not like it - very old gtk). Test: run LANG={mysetup} xcalc. No warning must appear. Note: localedef --list shows cs_CZ.utf8. It's because glibc ignores all '-' characters and converts charset to lowercase. LANGUAGE LANGUAGE can be optionally set to list of languages for searching messages, e. g. cs_CZ:sk_SK. Applications translated to cs will use cs, applications translated to sk but not cs will use sk. Warning: Some desktop managers with ability to set session language (GDM) does not properly set/reset this variable and it is inherited to all locale setups. It can cause strange setups. LC_{category} - Set it for special purposes, if you want to use different locales for messages, ctypes, collating etc. LC_ALL - no need to set in environment. It nearly duplicates LANG. Nice to use in scripts, not environment. -- Stanislav Brabec http://www.penguin.cz/~utx, ICQ 116020046 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
