Is it just me, or are locales and their setup a serious afterthought on Linux. I havn't yet met a single distro which can sensibly set up locales the way I want them. Considering Linux was started by a Fin, you'd think this would have been sorted by now ... calm down, calm down. Ok that's the shouting over ! Pissed off after fruitless hours :-(
It probably is just a question of finding the right setup. This is what I am trying to achieve: I live in Germany and would like to use German standards (e.g for date formating) as well as have all German, French, Spanish and the Euro symbols at my disposal (both in X and on terminal). I wish to retain English (British version if poss.) as the default system language though. I've figured so far that I should use ISO-8859-15 (or Unicode .. is that available) char sets. Trying to reconfigure the system using dpkg-reconfigure locales just generates locales but does nothing more (doesn't seem to set them up for use). This morning I found a reference to localedef and tried that with en_GB@ISO-8859-15 and set it up which resulted in a mess: now even a simple "ls" in an xterm results in a weird mix of characters - more or less incomprehensible .... Anyway .. has anybody succeeded in such a situation - what's the answer ? Otherwise, does anybody know of good documentation which explains the how and why behind all this stuff ?? Help much appreciated, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
