On Son, 2004-04-11 at 13:26, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I am using Debian/unstable with English language. Occasionaly, I need to > write letters in Deutsch. I would like to know how to write german > umlauts and other Deutsch specific characters while still having a > english version of Mozilla-mail.
Hello, set-language-environement allowas a relatively fine-grained setup. I wanted basically the same as you and mostly got it. There are a few inconsistencies, though... evolution now is germanized, but most other apps aren't. The other workaround is to do as we did when 8-bit ASCII was imperative: use ae, oe, ue for the Umlauts and replace the (don't know it's english name, the character that almost looks like a greek beta), well replace that one with ss. Fine. In electronic mail, everyone will accept it. Not only geeks who were around when FIDOnet ruled the earth, but really everyone. If you want to write the occasional real letter (Abiword or OpenOffice or...) I'd suggest you write a small script to set and export LC_ALL before starting your application. cu, Schnobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
