Re: language and charset settings

[Matijs van Zuijlen <Matijs.van.Zuijlen@xs4all.nl>]

On 2002.02.12 20:45:19 +0100 Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:23:55PM +0100, 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.
>
> LANG=en_US
>
> It'll use an 8-bit character set (Latin-1), which has ümlauts.

I use

LANG=nl_NL@euro
LC_MESSAGES=en_US
LC_COLLATE=C

so my fonts can display the euro-symbol in addition to umlaute, the 
applications still speak english, and ls displays uppercase names before 
lowercase.

Matijs