On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Cedar Cox wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > > Run your GTK 1.2 and legacy programs with an LC_CTYPE=he_IL environment
> > > > variable and they will succesfully decode the normal keymap into 8-bit
> > > > characters. And no, Qt 2.3, Mozilla and GTK 2.0 really need proper
> > > encodings
> > > > to know what you meant.
> > > > LC_CTYPE=he_IL biditext xchat
> > > I set in ~/.xsession LC_CTYPE=he_IL and exported it. Some problems:
> > > now kde does notinput hebrew, and gtk does.
> >
> > For some systems "iw_IL" will be required instead of "he_IL".
>
> When I try something like this I get:
>
> ~$ LC_CTYPE=he_IL gimp
>
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
>
>
> Same with iw_IL. Does my system lack updated libraries?
This is a matter of glibc (the C library).
Have a look under /usr/share/locale/{he,he_IL,iw,iw_IL}/ and see if you
have any LC_CTYPE file there. (maybe the locales directory resides
elsewhere, such as /usr/lib/locale )
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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