Hi, I dedicated the previous days to locales (on potato). After reading all HOW-TOs, mailing list archives etc. I could find, I finally managed to have special chars in the console _and_ an english gnome. However, I've come across some things I still don't understand.
First, here are my locale settings: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dir$ locale LANG=C (see below for why this seems to be) LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 (latin charset with Euro symbol) LC_NUMERIC=de_DE LC_TIME=de_DE LC_COLLATE=de_DE LC_MONETARY=de_AT LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_ALL= I have special chars: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dir$ ls [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dir$ touch ä [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dir$ ls ä [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dir$ Question 1: Strangely, the setting of LC_MESSAGES changes my ability to display umlauts in filenames: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dir$ ls ä [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dir$ export LC_MESSAGES=en_EN [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dir$ ls ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dir$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dir$ export LC_MESSAGES=en_US [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dir$ ls ä [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dir$ Why is this?? Shouldn't the charset be determined by LC_CTYPE (alone)? (Other programs, such as mutt, can still display umlauts) Question 2: LANG=C gets set by gdm, although I put LANG=en_US in /etc/environment (when I log in on the text console, it _is_ set to en_US, according to /etc/environment). There is a DefaultLocale=english setting in gdm.conf, but this seems not to change LANG. The behavior of gdm seems strange, since /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome _does_ honour /etc/environment: if [ -f /etc/environment ]; then . /etc/environment fi I don't know if this can be a problem. Does someone? Thanks for helping with my questions or yet another pointer to documentation (sigh :) Oh, and to anyone who wrestles with locales and uses Evolution: Evo 0.8 (the latest packaged version) has a known bug that will prevent it from displaying special chars unless LC_ALL is set to something like de_DE. No other LC_* will do. -- I did not vote for the Austrian government Linux: The choice of a GNU generation. Visit http://www.gnu.org/
