Thanks for taking the time to explain the Ubuntu specific changes. On 19/05/07, Ming Hua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .... > > Sure the C locale is not very fitting for writing characters that are > > outside of ASCII. I could have figured out if I looked. But if Gnome can > > warn about such trivial things like missing icons (or more serious > > things like failure to load keymap) there is always room for more > > warnings. > > Yes, but I don't see how that's related to this bug. You may want to > file a bug against gnome-session or something.
What this something would be? Perhaps im-switch? Is that what starts the im? > > > How should I figure out that US English is an UTF-8 locale is a mystery. > > I could just try a few. Or try to find out how gdm maps the pretty names > > to locale names. But that is not the sort of thing a GUI user is > > supposed to do. > > Ubuntu installations for any language uses UTF-8 locale by default, and > I believe it's mentioned in the document. And the default choice in GDM > should be a UTF-8 enabled locale, too. If you make the choice of a C > locale yourself, I think it's fair to assume you know what you are > doing. > It is not exactly what I did. I selected something like "No localization" during installation. This makes the default locale "C". Of course, in retrospect it does make sense that "No localization" selects "C". But this it the problem of knowing in advance what the pretty name really means. Thanks Michal -- weird scim setup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112186 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs