Re: No Umlauts in Gnome Apps

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:15:18PM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: | I see this as a general problem with Debian. The locale system doesn't | really cover everything needed. It's not just debian, though. The problem has deep historical roots. Originally there were no locales, and ASCII was all that

Re: No Umlauts in Gnome Apps

2002-12-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Moin, * Johan Ehnberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-12-01 14:15]: >Edit /etc/environment or apt-get install localeconf so that the result >is (replace fi_FI@euro with your own locale: de_DE@euro): > >LANG=C >LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro >LC_NUMERIC=fi_FI@euro >LC_TIME="C" >LC_COLLATE="C" >LC_MONETARY=fi_FI@euro

Re: No Umlauts in Gnome Apps

2002-12-01 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hello! First, I want to apologize for breaking the thread, but I accidentally deleted the original message... I see this as a general problem with Debian. The locale system doesn't really cover everything needed. Say, it works well as long as you survive with only C as locale. I would file a bu

No Umlauts in Gnome Apps

2002-12-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, I cannot see Umlauts (äöÜ) and other special characters (æß) in my GTK applications (Gimp, EasyTAG, Gedit, GKrellM). I use a US keyboard layout and a modified keymap to enter these special characters. This works fine for KDE, LessTif and Tk, but GTK does not display them, all I get is a zero-