Setting locale in 12.2 (UTF-8)
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From: Mike Jones on 14 Feb 2010 07:51 I thought I'd set things (on installation) to use UTF-8, but I've recently noticed a text editor (mousepad) defaulting to ISO-8859-1 as "Current Locale". I think that all I probably did was set console parameters, and X11 is still using the ISO-8859-1 default. How to I (re)set (X11) things to UTF-8? (Getting a bit "lost in data" ATM.) Or, is there a good reason why I should stick to the ISO-8859-x thing? If so, how would I "upgrade" this to ISO-8859-15 (+console) instead? Ta. -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs.
From: Martin Schmitz on 14 Feb 2010 08:44 Mike Jones wrote: > How to I (re)set (X11) things to UTF-8? (Getting a bit "lost in data" > ATM.) echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/profile.d/lang.sh Martin
From: Mike Jones on 14 Feb 2010 13:08 Responding to Martin Schmitz: > Mike Jones wrote: >> How to I (re)set (X11) things to UTF-8? (Getting a bit "lost in data" >> ATM.) > > echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/profile.d/lang.sh > > Martin From: /etc/profile.d/lang.sh # There is also support for UTF-8 locales, but be aware that # some programs are not yet able to handle UTF-8 and will fail to # run properly. In those cases, you can set LANG=C before # starting them. Still, I'd avoid UTF unless you actually need it. It seems likely, given this, that ISO-8859-15 might be a better option? If so, then I'd probably need to change my console LANG to the same. -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs.
From: Martin Schmitz on 15 Feb 2010 04:55 Mike Jones wrote: > # There is also support for UTF-8 locales, but be aware that > # some programs are not yet able to handle UTF-8 and will fail to > # run properly. In those cases, you can set LANG=C before > # starting them. Still, I'd avoid UTF unless you actually need it. This sounds like being not updated for ages. > It seems likely, given this, that ISO-8859-15 might be a better > option? Definitively not. Martin
From: Mike Jones on 15 Feb 2010 05:24
Responding to Martin Schmitz: > Mike Jones wrote: >> # There is also support for UTF-8 locales, but be aware that # some >> programs are not yet able to handle UTF-8 and will fail to # run >> properly. In those cases, you can set LANG=C before # starting them. >> Still, I'd avoid UTF unless you actually need it. > > This sounds like being not updated for ages. Slack 12.2. >> It seems likely, given this, that ISO-8859-15 might be a better option? > > Definitively not. > I did try that, but got some ASCI-something instead. ISO-8895-15 is supposed to be the fuller option to the more restricted ISO-8859-1, but it looks like I'll be sticking with ISO-8859-1 for now as the UTF-8 option seems to still be "experimental" and the ISO-8859-15 option is effectively borked. Kinda disappointing really, to be so restricted. :( But then again, as mentioned in PV's README, some apps are still not "UTF-8 ready", including Midnight Commander, which is my primary file manager. (Yes, there is a patch, but its still in BETA.) -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs. |