Re: Nice multilingual environment with Debian menu
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:21:25PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 12:43, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > * UTF-8 console with English locale
> > * UTF-8 console with Japanese locale
>
> Why are these different?
Try "man man", "ls -l" or "date", you get different answers.
locale is not just encoding but sort order, message, time stamp style,
... and more.
> It isn't really laid out in the document linked
I do not understand what you mean.
> does this mean different input methods?
Yes.
Actually, uxterm under ja_JP.UTF-8 brings out xim(kinput2 for me) but
not in en_US.UTF-8. I guess in en_US.UTF-8, compose key is active to
make accented characters (not tested).
Since I start console programs in the customized locale, this change of
the console program behavior can be enjoyed. If I were still using
hacks in my shell start up script[*1], I would not have enjoyed this in
uxterm.
Anyway, my point in posting this also in -devel was that Debian menu is
very useful tool if you know how to use it.
Osamu
[*1] I used to detect console in ~/.bashrc by:
TERMPPID=$(ps --no-header -p $PPID |awk '{ print $4 }')
TERMUXTERM=$(ps --no-header -Cp $PPID | awk '{ print $7 }')
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