Bram Moolenaar writes:
> the documentation doesn't have a list of locale names that work.
But it has a command to give the list. "man 1 locale" =>
locale [ -a | -m]
-a, --all-locales
Write names of available locales.
You also have the locale file description in "man 5 locale" and the
general locale overview in "man 7 locale".
> > For users who cannot remember case, we provide GUI front ends with
> > combo boxes or scrollable lists, and the user just chooses "Japanese"
> > from a long list of languages/locales/timezones.
>
> So, where in my window manager do I find a tool to set the current language in
> one of the xterms I have open? No, this doesn't exist.
If you want it for a particular xterm, you have to look in the xterm
menus. Unfortunately, in the old 8-bit font technology, it is not
possible to switch locales in a running xterm. (If it already uses an
ISO-8859-1 font, you can't display ISO-8859-5 characters with it.) And
even with the xterm using ISO-10646 fonts, it's impossible for xterm
to change the locale of the sh and programs running inside xterm.
But some other programs (Emacs, yudit 1.x, netscape) allow choosing the
locale or language in a user-friendly way.
If you look in the system tool (YaST or similar) or window manager
(KDE Control Center -> Desktop -> Languages) you'll find a way to
choose the locale for the entire system or desktop.
Bruno
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