Yes I've changed the french entry in the locale.alias file and it works. So now I agree this is not a gdm bug. But gdm is the only one to use this file.
The file etc/locale.alias comes from the base/locales package. I don't understand where's the problem. Is this a locales bug or another package ? I don't understand why X11 need to understand the locale ? Christophe Le mar, 10 jui 2001 16:16:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, christophe barbé wrote: > > > I've done the following : > > rm /etc/environment > > touch /etc/environment > > apt-get install gdm > > /etc/init.d/gdm start > > choosen french language > > login as normal user > > and ... gnome start in english ! > > > > So my conclusion is that it's a debian gdm bug. > > I can set my locale normally for startx and xdm but not with gdm. > > No. It's probably a X11 bug. Let me guess/explain. > > gdm declares language using aliases in /etc/locale.alias > So it declares a french language reading this file. It uses the > fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 alias (just read the file). > > BUT, there is a bug in X11 (I submitted this as 76906 initially). > The expected locale (for X11) is fr_FR.ISO8859-1 so that when > used, the locale is not recognized. X11 falls back to the "C" locale, > thus making all panel applications in gnome being in english. > > Just try: export LANG=fr_FR.ISO8859-1; gnotes-applet (or any other > applet). If the applet is (correctly) in French, then you can submit a > new bug to xlibs (to be merged with others). The (quick and > dirty) bugfix is to edit /etc/locale.alias to rewrite > fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 in fr_FR.ISO8859-1 > > Good luck. > -- > Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- ATER en informatique à l'université de Caen >
