Bug#259537: 'fr_FR.UTF-8' or any UTF-8 locale seems missing in X11
I could not understand what the problem is.
At Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:08:36 +0200,
Christopher wrote:
> In my /usr/XF86R6/lib/X11/locales directory I don't have fr_FR.UTF-8,
> nor do I have it in my alias file. This is however my C locale.
So?
> dpkg-reconfigure locales does what's its expected to do.
>
> The UTF-8 problems only occur in emacs (stuff downloaded with zopeedit)
> and in the mozilla email client.
>
> The problems occur in blackbox as well as kde, but not on console logins.
You have to describe your problem. An appropriate example is: "I
don't read French characters in my emacs 21.3 with fr_FR.UTF-8".
> I can try
> #export LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8
> from konsole, but get the following after
> # ls --help
> Here is another interesting symptom. When I use konsole and type ls
> --help, I get this ::
> Afficher les informations au sujet des FICHIERS (du r��pertoire
> courant par d��faut). Trier les entr��es alphab��tiquement si aucune
> des options -cftuSUX ou --sort n'est utilis��e.
Then you can successfully read French characters.
> I do have a en_US.UTF-8 in the /usr/XF86R6/lib/X11/locales directory,
> but the files still present the same symptoms in emacs, kate and konsole.
>
> Here is one of the offending files (attached, I dont't know if you'll
> see it).
How to use this attachment file?
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