Pablo Saratxaga wrote: >Kaixo! >Li Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:51:29 +0100, > Guy Zelck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scrîjheut: > > GZ> Not a real answer but sth. that's bothering me from the beginning and > GZ> related to the Euro. > GZ> I've got a md8.1 and the Euro doesn't work in KDE, you get ? instead. It > GZ> does in xterm & gedit for instance. > > GZ> My /etc/sysconfig/i18n contains : > GZ> LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.ISO-8859-15 >... > GZ> LANG=nl > >in fact "nl" used to use iso-8859-1 not iso-8859-15. >It is a problem for KDE as it gives priority to LANG over other LC_* >variables, it seems (something I consider to be a bad behaviour, btw). >Undefine LANG, or define it to the same value than LC_* variables; >or rebuild the definitions of "nl" (as root): > >localedef -c -i nl_NL -f ISO-8859-15 /usr/share/locale/nl > >(in such last case, also edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locales/locales.alias >and change: > >nl: nl_NL.ISO-8859-1 > >with: > >nl: nl_NL.ISO-8859-15 > Thanks Pablo, after a long search I solved it last Sunday by redefining LANG just as you indicate here. I was a very happy man. The thread "On Euro" contains some interesting links which permitted me to also adapt Eterm for the ¤. I find the other tips you provide very interesting, again we learn sth. new, thanks for that.
> > GZ> A lot of people struggle with this but never is there any real reason > GZ> given by Mandrake why this doesn't work, > >It took me quite some time to understand what the problem was, as using >LANG variable in priority is not a standard behaviour, and also as KDE >shows in other aspects a complete independence from system locale settings. > >Sorry for the inconvenience. > Your efforts are much appreciated. It would be good if these Euro problems get a place on one of the Mandrake sites. Greetings, Guy.
