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Re: language and charset settings



On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:23 am, Steffen Evers wrote:
> Hello,
>
> does anyone know how to have the charset settings differently than the
> language?
>
> I want to have my applications speaking English, but would like to be
> able to display German Umlaute like ue or oe. This does not work with
> the current locale stuff. However, it used to work.
>
> When I set LANG=C in /etc/environment my konsole does not display the
> Umlaute any longer. When I set it to de that works, but all applications
> speak German.
>

this is what's in my /etc/locale.gen (setup by x configuration, i believe). 
this enables me to see umlauete, euro symbols, etc., on an en_US system.

de_DE ISO-8859-1
en_IE@euro ISO-8859-15
en_US ISO-8859-1

ben



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