I have been lucky enough to have everything to do with local characters "just work" for many a year... But now I find myself having to look into this "locale-thing".
My emacs will display special Norwegian characters in X for older files. But it simply ignores keypresses on the keys with these characters imprinted on them. I noticed that my installation has no directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale at all, but if I just copy this over from my old host, everything seems to be back to "just working"... However, that's good but not perfect, so I searched and found several 'locale'-directories on the new system: /usr/local/share/locale, /usr/lib/locale and /usr/share/locale When I list the contents: bombadil 5>ls /usr/local/share/locale af/ az/ bn/ cs/ el/ es/ fi/ gu/ hu/ it/ li/ and so on... bombadil 7>ls /usr/lib/locale C/ ibm-cp1133/ iso8859-14/ iso8859-7/ and so on... bombadil 12>ls /usr/share/locale af/ ca/ de/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ eo/ eu/ ga/ and so on... I see that the second one most resembles the one from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 on the host. So, now I wonder... 1) Who installs this, and missed it in my system? X? I could not find any clues scanning the topmost levels of the LFS+BLFS books for the term "locale". 2) How can I get this right? Has some part of my system installed the sensible things under /usr/lib but just forgot to tell X about it? If so, I guess I can just fix it with a soft link. 3) What is the best source of information on this? 4) What should I set my LC_*, LANG and similar (if there more) variables to? I guess maybe I will have to figure that out from (3) above... Sorry for the verboseness, but will appreciate any hints, as always... J.O. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
