step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-11 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:08:02PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > But I will put it on debian server soon, it is better to have > a copy somewhere else. > slightly updated version is now also at: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO http://people.debian.org/~garabik/debian

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-06 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Sep 06, Radovan Garabik scribbled: [snip] > > I noticed that it also fails to process fome TTF fonts (check out > > http://curiosity.de/downloads/fonts/curefonts.zip - most of them get > > ignored when generating fonts.dir) > > they are not complete - ttmkfdir generates lines only for > enco

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-06 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:29:11PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > ** On Sep 05, Radovan Garabik scribbled: > > use ttmkfdir instead. It still does not generate 10646 encoding in output, > > but at least it will put there all the encodings that the font covers, > > and you can add 10646 entry by h

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-06 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:10:16PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > I have however other problems with ttf fonts - they are > > EXTREMELY slow. When I use arialuni.ttf (25MB font with the best > > unicode coverage) as main font in konquero

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-06 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Sep 05, Radovan Garabik scribbled: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:47:26PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > > are set to the fixed-misc USC version and it seems to work fine. The only > > problem I have found is with the Unicode TTF fonts - mkttfdir doesn't > > generate correct fonts.dir file for

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-06 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:02:17AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Radovan" == Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Radovan> it is LANGUAGE, and you have to set LANG to something > Radovan> (which will be ignored in this case, but has to be set). > > Not only does it have to b

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Brian May
> "Radovan" == Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Radovan> it is LANGUAGE, and you have to set LANG to something Radovan> (which will be ignored in this case, but has to be set). Not only does it have to be set, but it looks like it can't be set to "C": [776] [scrooge:bam] /

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote: > I have however other problems with ttf fonts - they are > EXTREMELY slow. When I use arialuni.ttf (25MB font with the best > unicode coverage) as main font in konqueror, just drawing a page > in ASCII takes 2 minutes (PIII 600 MHz). During those 2 > mi

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:47:26PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > are set to the fixed-misc USC version and it seems to work fine. The only > problem I have found is with the Unicode TTF fonts - mkttfdir doesn't > generate correct fonts.dir file for those AFAICT - all entries have their > charset

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Sep 05, Brian May scribbled: > > "Marek" == Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marek> Or just put LANG=en_GB in /etc/environment > > Hmmm. Might be worth trying. However, either this is going to override > the language chosen by gdm, or gdm is going to override this. No

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:03:50PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Vociferous" == Vociferous Mole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> doesn't look like it to me: > >> > >> [503] [pluto:bam] ~ >LANG=en_AU:en_GB dia > >> > >> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library >

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:03:50PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Vociferous" == Vociferous Mole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> doesn't look like it to me: > >> > >> [503] [pluto:bam] ~ >LANG=en_AU:en_GB dia > >> > >> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library >

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-05 Thread Brian May
> "Vociferous" == Vociferous Mole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> doesn't look like it to me: >> >> [503] [pluto:bam] ~ >LANG=en_AU:en_GB dia >> >> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Vociferous> From another message (in one of the numerous Vociferou

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread Vociferous Mole
On 04-Sep-01, 19:34 (EDT), Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Drew" == Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Drew> I think I read somewhere in the middle of this discussion > Drew> that you can use ":" to make something like LANG=en_AU:en_GB > Drew> which is suppo

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread Brian May
> "Marek" == Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marek> Or just put LANG=en_GB in /etc/environment Hmmm. Might be worth trying. However, either this is going to override the language chosen by gdm, or gdm is going to override this. Not an ideal solution. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROT

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread Brian May
> "Drew" == Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Drew> I think I read somewhere in the middle of this discussion Drew> that you can use ":" to make something like LANG=en_AU:en_GB Drew> which is supposed to define fallbacks. doesn't look like it to me: [503] [pluto:bam] ~ >L

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Sep 04, Daniel Burrows scribbled: [snip] > > - in the configuration screen manually type "en_GB", but this doesn't > > seem to do anything. > > This may not be the answer you want, but what about adding: > export LC_ALL=en_GB > > or something similar at the front of ~/.xsession? Or just

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:12:25AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > I am not sure if this is what you meant, but my understanding is that > there is far greater support for the _GB locale, rather then the _AU > locale: > > [515] [scrooge:bam] ~ >du /usr/share/locale/en_GB > 136 /usr/share

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:01:24PM +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > Btw: > > > http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO > > Does not serve any pages to me - it's pingable though. If you've got > problems with that server you could put the HOWTO on the debian servers or > i

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-04 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
Btw: > http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO Does not serve any pages to me - it's pingable though. If you've got problems with that server you could put the HOWTO on the debian servers or if that's a problem I'd gladly put it up at our site. *t

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:12:25AM +1000, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > How do you get gdm to log you in using a nonstandard locale? I can > > - select a list of different languages, but not different versions of English > > - in the configuration screen see a list of "defaul

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-03 Thread Brian May
> "Drew" == Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Preparing correct locale: Pick a locale you would use. I >> decided to use en_GB, you may use something else, the important >> part is the UTF-8 encoding. 1) generate the locale: # >> localedef -v -c -i en_GB -f UTF-8 /us

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Drew Parsons wrote: > > en_AU UTF-8 tells it to make en_AU a UTF-8 locale. If you want > > en_AU.ISO-8859-1 as well, then add > > en_AU UTF-8 > > en_AU.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 > > or (what I would recommmend) > > en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > en_AU ISO-8859-1 > Just out

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-02 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:42:31PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > > en_AU UTF-8 tells it to make en_AU a UTF-8 locale. If you want > en_AU.ISO-8859-1 as well, then add > en_AU UTF-8 > en_AU.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 > or (what I would recommmend) > en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8 > en_AU ISO

Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8

2001-09-02 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:42:31PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > > en_AU UTF-8 tells it to make en_AU a UTF-8 locale. If you want > en_AU.ISO-8859-1 as well, then add > en_AU UTF-8 > en_AU.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 this is probably the best idea > or (what I would recommmend) > en