On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: > I have been lucky enough to have everything to do with local > characters "just work" for many a year... But now I find myself > having to look into this "locale-thing". > > My emacs will display special Norwegian characters in X for older > files. But it simply ignores keypresses on the keys with these > characters imprinted on them. > > I noticed that my installation has no directory > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale at all, but if I just copy this over from > my old host, everything seems to be back to "just working"... > > However, that's good but not perfect, so I searched and found several > 'locale'-directories on the new system: > > /usr/local/share/locale, /usr/lib/locale and /usr/share/locale > > When I list the contents: > > bombadil 5>ls /usr/local/share/locale > af/ az/ bn/ cs/ el/ es/ fi/ gu/ hu/ it/ li/ and so on... > bombadil 7>ls /usr/lib/locale > C/ ibm-cp1133/ iso8859-14/ iso8859-7/ and so on... > bombadil 12>ls /usr/share/locale > af/ ca/ de/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ eo/ eu/ ga/ and so on... > > I see that the second one most resembles the one from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 > on the host. > > So, now I wonder... > > 1) Who installs this, and missed it in my system? X? I could not find > any clues scanning the topmost levels of the LFS+BLFS books for the > term "locale".
It comes with X - this is why logging what you installed from each package is a Good Thing [TM] :) > 2) How can I get this right? Has some part of my system installed the > sensible things under /usr/lib but just forgot to tell X about it? > If so, I guess I can just fix it with a soft link. X is a dog's breakfast of configure options at the moment (for pure64, I'll be using three different lib options next build, to hopefully get everything where it ought to be - two cover 99% of it, but getting the libGL symlinks right needs a third which only affects them). My guess is that you've used a different combination of options, or standard options in an unexpected context (x86_64) and X isn't smart enough to realise where it put things. To recover, try a symlink from where the locales should be, to where they got installed ? If that seems ok, you could remove the symlink, replace it by a directory, and move over everything _except_ /usr/lib/locale/local-archive which is where glibc installs its locales. > 3) What is the best source of information on this? Voodoo ;) > 4) What should I set my LC_*, LANG and similar (if there more) variables > to? I guess maybe I will have to figure that out from (3) above... > Whatever they were before ? Have a look at 'locale -a', probably one of the nn_ or no_ variants. 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
