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Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?



On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:31, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> It seems that it has problems on detecting that it is in UTF-8 mode. I
> tried setting:
> 
> LANG=C@utf-8 (valid, existing)
> LC_CTYPE=C@utf-8 (valid, existing, for whiptail-utf8)
> LC_MESAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 (just a string, parsed and used by modconf)
> 
> Well, modconf part seems to work, and all non-ascii string appear as two
> characters, but as two Question marks!

Try the patch to modconf that I sent you yesterday (unsetting
LC_MESSAGES before calling whiptail).  I think it will fix this.  With
that change, I was able to run modconf successfully in a UTF-8 xterm
using LC_CTYPE=en_IN, LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8.

p.



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