Hi gabor! Thanks for your reply. This is what I have done so far and it seems to work. However fluxbox is giving me a hard time crashing an sylpheed gives me text full of boxes if I use a unicode font, even for english text. Also the keyboard layout change doesn't work that good as I can write in greek but the accent can't be used :-/ I hope it isn't a problem that I used el_GR to generate el_GR.utf8 instead of en_something... Oh and I put LC_* in the .bashrc so that I don't have to added everytime /etc/profile gets updated.
On 29 Jul 2003 12:20:57 +0200 gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 05:49, Steven Elling wrote: > > On Monday 28 July 2003 06:50, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote: > > > Being sick and tired of seeing strange characters all over the > > > place > > > in documents, I have taken the decision to convert my whole system > > > to use unicode for character encoding. Has anybody else done that > > > before? I have found a page on the Internet that explains some > > > stuff but any help is welcome! This is the link: > > > > > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html > > > > > > Are there any problems using unicode? Most libraries nowadays > > > support > > > UTF-8 and most programs are converted to use it. Maybe creating a > > > HOWTO would be a nice idea (if it doesn't already exist) adding a > > > list at the end of applications that support UTF-8. Thanks in > > > advance! > > > > I make it a habit to set the environment variable LANG to en_US in > > '/etc/env.d/00basic'. LANG determines which locale to use and in > > the case of en_US uses iso8859-1 to display characters. en_US > > allows me to view en, em, vulgar fractions, letters with accents, > > etc. (man iso_8859_1). > > for having utf-8 in most of applications, you have to switch to an > utf-8 locale... i do it with the following: > > 1. 'generate' the required locale.. i use the following command: > "localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8" > > 2. then i switch to it in /etc/profile (/etc/env.d/00basic gets > overwritten sometimes by portage) > export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 > > > gabor > > > > -- > "Don't worry. I used the back of my sword. Oh, it's double-sided. > Sorry." -Zelgadis, Slayers > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
