On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 09:45:23AM +0100, Alberto Hernando wrote: > > Hi. > > Thanks for your explanations. I'll check if things go as you say should go. > Only one question: how do you set utf-8 for X and, say, iso-8859-15 for > console?
I was going to say that you don't wnat to do that, but on looking a bit more deeply I can see that for many common West European languages that will work nicely. The big thing you need to watch out for is probably the euro symbol (€) - the iso-8859-15 glyph for that is now the funny-looking 'currency symbol' in UTF-8. So, for a desktop system try 8859-15 in your .bash_profile so that a login at the console will use it, and UTF-8 everywhere else including the LFS sysconfig and /etc/profile. I use startx while I'm building a system, that would inherit the login locale, so I'd need to try exporting UTF-8 in .xinitrc. Once the system is mostly built, I use gdm in mode 5 with .xsession and that doesn't reference ~/.bash_profile so the default UTF-8 would be in effect (and in my case .xsession is a symlink to .xinitrc which would anyway set UTF-8). > To me, the most important thing here is handling text files with non-ascci > characters in the file and possibly in the name. This means good X > configuration, I think. > Yes - extra TTF fonts as in blfs, fontconfig (local.conf), and decent applications that can use fontconfig (e.g. by telling browsers to use 'serif' 'sans' 'monospace' - the names in local.conf which give a list of fonts to try - instead of specifying e.g. 'DejaVu Sans'). That isn't a criticism of DejaVu, it's very good for most of Western Europe, but as you stray further afield it starts to show its limits. In your original post, you said you could type and see japanese characters - out of interest, how do you type them, and into which application(s) ? Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
