On 11/11/06, alberto hernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've read the article above. I think that my locales aren't working well. First of all, I have this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# locale LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_NAME="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8 This looks ok. I thought it was working because I could type and see Japanese characters. But there are some things weird. For example, according to the article, wc is a useful tool. In kde, I have this:
You don't normally need to set LC_ALL. Just LANG is usually enough.
bash-3.1$ echo -n é | wc -c 2 bash-3.1$ echo -n é | wc -m 1 And it's ok. But in the console, bash-3.1$ echo -n é | wc -c 1 bash-3.1$ echo -n é | wc -m 0 Some thing isn't working here. Notice that the behaviour in console and X is different. Also, in X I type "á" and I see it. In console, I type "á" and I see it when I type the next character. For example, I type: áéíóú I see: áéíó
Don't use the console in UTF-8. It just doesn't work. Look back through the lfs-dev archives for Alexander Patrakov posting about patches for the kernel w/ UTF-8. What we have in the book only implements part of a solution and was rejected upstream. If you want to use UTF-8 on the command line, you need a true UTF-8 capable terminal emulator. This include xterm w/ luit or something like gnome-terminal.
And more things: in console I can't see well the non-ascii characters in vfat (I mount it with codepage=850 and utf-8). But it looks good in X. The inside, however, is messy in both X and console.
I don't understand how fat handling works with the codepage and whatnot. I don't know if utf8 really works on fat or not. Maybe Alexander will pipe up. Good luck. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
