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Re: locale LC_CTYPE



You can also provide LANG(UAGE) or LC_CTYPE as a command line variable.  To 
write in Japanese, I call

LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=ja_JP gedit

which gives me English menus and support for the XIM input program.  This is 
actually part a line in a script I call jpit, so on the occasions I want to 
write Japanese I just call

jpit gedit

BTW, what exactly is the difference between LANG and LANGUAGE?

On Tuesday 20 August 2002 11:02, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, bytor1@telia.com wrote:
> > I am running mutt and I send a lot of e-mails written in Swedish.
> > As of now the three extra letters in the swedish alphabet show up as
> > question marks or numbers like 345, 344 and 366.  I read somewhere
> > that I need to change my LC_CTYPE variable in my locale.  I am not
> > sure how to acomplish this. I would appreciate it greatly if some
> > could tell how to do it or if someone knew of a solution to my
> > problem.  Thanks a lot, Clyde
>
> Try:
>
> $ export LANG=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1
>
> You may have to run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" as root to make sure
> that Swedish locale support is generated.



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