On 2005-02-08 21:10:34 +0000 (Tue, Feb), Paul Worrall wrote: > I had "sys-libs/glibc userlocales" in /etc/portage/package.use and the > following in /etc/locales.build: > > en_US/ISO-8859-1 > en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8 > en_GB/ISO-8859-1 > en_GB/UTF-8
Isn't that a problem to have two en_GB defined, the last with UTF-8 which, I assume, takes over the ISO-8859-1 encoding? Try: en_GB/ISO-8859-1 en_GB.UTF-8/UTF-8 > and I was getting strange effects with the '?' sign (UK Pounds). For instance: > * in OpenOffice.org wordprocessor it was impossible to enter the sign, > > * in Konsole I could type the sign but if I typed several in a row then a > single backspace deleted them all What is your locale here? Run 'echo $LC_ALL' or 'locale' > * on a virtual terminal I could enter the sign when logged in as root, but > not > as a user. Is the root's locale diferent?
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