On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 15:09 -0700, Tom Russo wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:58:36PM +0000, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 21:18 +0000, roger g6ckr wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 10:27 -0800, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, roger g6ckr wrote: > > > > > > > > > Warning: > > > > > Name: create_appshell text_output > > > > > Class: XmTextField > > > > > Character '\41' not supported in font. Discarded. > > > > > > > > In the FAQ. > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > Also at the bottom of the Ubuntu HowTo page. > > > will be logging out and back to test shortly. > > > I assume it will work with GB as well as US. > > > Roger > > Additional info. > > Tried changing from > > LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > > to > > LANG="en_GB" > > > > and logged out and back in the result was the same > > So I tried > > LANG="en_US" still the same. > > The /etc/environment file mentioned in the Ubuntu HowTo page seems not to > matter > anymore in Ubuntu 8.04. That is, it seems never to be read and the > environment > is never set from it. (You can check --- do an ls -lu on the file and you'll > find that it's never read on reboot and login.) > > To get the same effect, you can create a launcher that does: > > env LANG="en_GB" xastir > > instead of just "xastir", and that'll do the trick. It'll change the language > setting ONLY for the process running xastir, and the annoying X messages go > away. > > Ever since I upgraded to 8.04 I had to do this. I have yet to find any > file in /etc that allows me to customize the language properly, nor have I > figured out (or really tried to figure out) what file gets scribbled when > one uses the GUI interface to set the language (which does not give you the > option to drop the UTF-8 from your current setting). > > If you figure it out, lemme know, because it's one of those annoyances about > the upgrade I simply haven't bothered to work through, just work around. > That makes me feel a bit better I had reached the similar conclusion and just done in in the shell (after a few Googled prompts) The whole output is pasted in case there are any other bits that need attention.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=en_GB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xastir ***** WARNING ***** Berkeley DB header files/shared library file do NOT match! Disabling use of the map cache. Header file: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.4.20: (February 24, 2006) Library file: Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (May 15, 2008) ***** WARNING ***** Built-in map types: gnis USGS GNIS Datapoints map APRSdos Maps map WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps pdb PocketAPRS Maps Support for these additional map types has been compiled in: geo Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats allowed) geo URL (Internet maps via libcurl library) shp ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library) xpm X Pixmap Maps (XPM library) festival_client: connect to server failed SayText: Couldn't open socket to Festival Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged Indexing maps... Finished indexing maps *** Reading WX Alert log files *** Done with WX Alert log files ------------- 73 Roger _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir