Hi Gary,
Do you mean when you select "System Default" in gdm locale selection,
you will login in C locale instead of en_CA.ISO8859-1?
Could you confirm /etc/default/init includes the following?
LC_COLLATE=en_CA.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE=en_CA.ISO8859-1
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_MONETARY=en_CA.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC=en_CA.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_CA.ISO8859-1
If /etc/default/init doesn't have LC_* nor LANG variable,
your system default locale is C. (If you modify the file,
reboot is required).
gdm has been showing only UTF-8 locales. To add non-UTF-8 locale,
you need add the locale manually in /etc/X11/gdm/locale.alias
and restart gdm.
:
English(Australia) en_AU.UTF-8,en_AU
English(Canada) en_CA.UTF-8,en_CA
+ English(Canada) en_CA.ISO8859-1,en_CA
English(Ireland) en_IE.UTF-8,en_IE
:
Thanks,
Fuyuki
Gary Mills wrote:
>> Gary Mills-san wrote (10/ 8/08 01:14 PM):
>>> So, the change is in the behavior of the gdm login
>> manager. In build 98, when I
>>> logged in with gdm, it retained the system default
>> locale. After a Live Upgrade to
>>> build 99, it gave me the `C' locale instead, and
>> warned me that I had logged in with
>>
>> What do you mean in "GDM warned me ..."
>
> It displayed a dialogue box that offered to rename some of my directories.
> I declined.
>
>>> a different language. When I tried to set my
>> locale from the gdm languages menu,
>>> it only showed me the UTF-8 locales. Something has
>> changed in gdm, it appears.
>>
>> GDM checks locales and fonts.
>> - Update /etc/X11/gdm/locale.alias.
>> Does your current locale.alias include
>> en_CA.ISO8859-1 at present?
>
> No, but it didn't include ISO locales for build 98 either.
>
>> - Install locales, maybe localeadm helps you.
>
> Since it all works when I revert to CDE, I assume that the locales are
> installed.
> They certainly were present after my initial install. By reverting to CDE,
> the Gnome
> session is the same: only the login manager has changed. (I never used the
> CDE
> desktop, just the CDE login manager dtlogin).
>
>> If FcFontList() is failed in your env on
>> en_CA.ISO8859-1, en_CA.ISO8859-1 cannot be
>> displayed.
>> My guess is your problem could be either of:
>> - locale.alias is not correct.
>> - setlocale(LC_CTYPE, en_CA.ISO8859-1) is failed.
>
> I'm wondering if gdm no longer recognizes the Solaris-style locale names. I
> had a
> similar problem with alpine, which only recognized the Linux-style locale
> names
> (the ones with a dash after `ISO'). gdm seems to believe that the system
> default
> locale is `C', when it's actually en_CA.ISO8859-1.
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