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Re: step by step HOWTO switch debian installation into utf-8



On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:12:25AM +1000, Brian May <bam@debian.org> was heard to say:
> How do you get gdm to log you in using a nonstandard locale? I can
> 
> - select a list of different languages, but not different versions of English
> 
> - in the configuration screen see a list of "default" locales, and
> select en_UK, but en_UK is not a valid locale. I believe it should be
> en_GB.
> 
> - in the configuration screen manually type "en_GB", but this doesn't
> seem to do anything.

  This may not be the answer you want, but what about adding:
export LC_ALL=en_GB

  or something similar at the front of ~/.xsession?

  Daniel

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