Dave, you are right. This was a little bit weird. Since, I moved from a distro to another one and the initialization process is not the same, I missed that one.
Ok, I just changed the LANG to my old LANG and everything is now fine. However, I was getting these wrong characters in an xterm while the gnome session was displaying the menus in the correct language except the gdm login display, so, I never think about this one. Also, I did the test on the console and my keyboard is mapped properly and when I typed national language charaters they were also displayed properly. This added to the confusion. There is still something not clean with my gnome setup, but it is no longer of any interest, I guess, to the jfs-discussion list. Thanks, Daniel On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:58:21 -0600, Dave Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You changed more than just the kernel, right? You re-installed the > whole system. I think the default locale may be different between your > old and new systems. What does the locale command return on both the > 2.4 and 2.6 systems? I think the filesystem may be returning the same > bytes, but the xterm or whatever is assuming a different character set. > > On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 13:56 -0500, Daniel Savard wrote: > > I'm sorry to asked about this. I read as much as I could in the > > archive trying to find out a solution to my problem. I have seen those > > posts in the past with a distracted eye thinking I'm ok with my > > systems. > > > > Until I decided migration time has arrived and I need to switch to > > kernel 2.6.10. So, I took a backup on a external Jaz 2GB drive for all > > the important stuff I need to recover on this specific machine (my > > laptop). The filesystem on the Jaz drive is a jfs. In fact, I am a > > wall to wall jfs guy, until now. > > > > So, I finally migrated this old laptop installation, I mean I > > reinstalled everything from scratch. The kernel was 2.4.20 or > > something like that. I then rebooted everything, but the PC Card > > adapter for my Jaz drive refused to work properly (seems there is a > > bug in the driver), so, I installed the Jaz drive on a 2.4.20 Linux > > server I still have and mounted the drive. Everything is fine and I > > did a tar file with some of the files I want to migrate first in a > > rush. I then untarred this file on my fresh 2.6.10 laptop and BOOM! I > > hitted the character-set problem. On all my systems, the > > CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT is iso8859-1, I tried to mount my file system on > > which the files were untarred with the iocharset=utf8, > > iocharset=iso8859-1 and in both cases the filenames and the content of > > ascii files isn't properly shown. So, my question: > > > > How am I supposed to perform the conversion? > > > > Sub-question: Why iso8859-1 from a 2.4.xx kernel to iso8859-1 on a > > 2.6.10 is raising such character-set problems? I was convinced to > > never hit this problem by choosing everything iso8859-1. That's not > > the case. > > > > > -- > David Kleikamp > IBM Linux Technology Center > > -- ----------------- Daniel Savard ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
