Re: [osol-discuss] Can't Select en_US.UTF-8 in New Installer

2007-12-01 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
The conventional installer in SXCE77 is broken, I tried the conventional installer on another machine, and it does not have any problem. The machine that I was having problem never had problem before (it had problem when switching into the graphical java mode). Will test on additional

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't Select en_US.UTF-8 in New Installer

2007-11-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because other codings are hard wired into other standards (e.g. CD-Text uses ISO-8859-1). Jörg -- Hi Jörg, you really know what you're doing, don't you? :-) BTW, how can I read a non-US_ISO-8859-1 coded playlist from an audio CD?

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't Select en_US.UTF-8 in New Installer

2007-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When Linux first came out in the 1990's, we went thru a lot of trouble going back and forth b/t the C-locale and the unicode locale(s). The world has become flat, and the default should be one of the unicode locales (so that if there are any

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't Select en_US.UTF-8 in New Installer

2007-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if the other locales can be used for a true POSIX-compliant environment as changing the locale changes everything from sort behaviours to other items. POSIX does not require a specific locale, it even uses ISO-8859-1 as an example:

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't Select en_US.UTF-8 in New Installer

2007-11-27 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
because other codings are hard wired into other standards (e.g. CD-Text uses ISO-8859-1). Jörg -- Hi Jörg, you really know what you're doing, don't you? :-) BTW, how can I read a non-US_ISO-8859-1 coded playlist from an audio CD? As you are aware, it always shows up as garbled

[osol-discuss] Can't Select en_US.UTF-8 in New Installer

2007-11-26 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
The conventional installer in SXCE77 is broken, and I was forced, for the first time, to use the new installer. I experienced several problems: 1. Since there is no multi-boot option with other Solaris slices, in order to preserve those already-installed slices I had to choose the upgrade

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't Select en_US.UTF-8 in New Installer

2007-11-26 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
My mistake. The locale for American English is indeed en_US.UTF-8. For some reason the system defaults to C. I *^%% I had selected American English as my default locale. Perhaps it was too much turkey. My apology. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't Select en_US.UTF-8 in New Installer

2007-11-26 Thread Shawn Walker
On 26/11/2007, W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mistake. The locale for American English is indeed en_US.UTF-8. For some reason the system defaults to C. I *^%% I had selected American English as my default locale. Perhaps it was too much turkey. My apology. The system

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't Select en_US.UTF-8 in New Installer

2007-11-26 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
My mistake. The locale for American English is indeed en_US.UTF-8. For some reason the system defaults to C. I *^%% I had selected American English as my default locale. Perhaps it was too much turkey. My apology. The system probably defaults to C because C is the *POSIX* locale.

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't Select en_US.UTF-8 in New Installer

2007-11-26 Thread Shawn Walker
On 26/11/2007, W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mistake. The locale for American English is indeed en_US.UTF-8. For some reason the system defaults to C. I *^%% I had selected American English as my default locale. Perhaps it was too much turkey. My apology. The