Hi, On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:21:25PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 12:43, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > * UTF-8 console with English locale > > * UTF-8 console with Japanese locale > > Why are these different?
Try "man man", "ls -l" or "date", you get different answers. locale is not just encoding but sort order, message, time stamp style, ... and more. > It isn't really laid out in the document linked I do not understand what you mean. > does this mean different input methods? Yes. Actually, uxterm under ja_JP.UTF-8 brings out xim(kinput2 for me) but not in en_US.UTF-8. I guess in en_US.UTF-8, compose key is active to make accented characters (not tested). Since I start console programs in the customized locale, this change of the console program behavior can be enjoyed. If I were still using hacks in my shell start up script[*1], I would not have enjoyed this in uxterm. Anyway, my point in posting this also in -devel was that Debian menu is very useful tool if you know how to use it. Osamu [*1] I used to detect console in ~/.bashrc by: TERMPPID=$(ps --no-header -p $PPID |awk '{ print $4 }') TERMUXTERM=$(ps --no-header -Cp $PPID | awk '{ print $7 }')