On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andrew Fowler wrote: > 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
Regarding your euro-problem: Install the euro-support packages and read it. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
