Re: F*****g locales ....
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andrew Fowler wrote:
> Is it just me, or are locales and their setup a serious afterthought on
> Linux. I havn't yet met a single distro which can sensibly set up
> locales the way I want them. Considering Linux was started by a Fin,
> you'd think this would have been sorted by now ... calm down, calm
> down. Ok that's the shouting over ! Pissed off after fruitless hours
> :-(
>
> It probably is just a question of finding the right setup. This is what
> I am trying to achieve:
>
> I live in Germany and would like to use German standards (e.g for date
> formating) as well as have all German, French, Spanish and the Euro
> symbols at my disposal (both in X and on terminal). I wish to retain
> English (British version if poss.) as the default system language
> though.
>
> I've figured so far that I should use ISO-8859-15 (or Unicode .. is that
> available) char sets.
>
> Trying to reconfigure the system using dpkg-reconfigure locales just
> generates locales but does nothing more (doesn't seem to set them up for
> use). This morning I found a reference to localedef and tried that with
> en_GB@ISO-8859-15 and set it up which resulted in a mess: now even a
> simple "ls" in an xterm results in a weird mix of characters - more or
> less incomprehensible ....
>
>
> Anyway .. has anybody succeeded in such a situation - what's the answer
> ? Otherwise, does anybody know of good documentation which explains the
> how and why behind all this stuff ??
>
>
> Help much appreciated,
>
> Andy
Regarding your euro-problem:
Install the euro-support packages and read it.
Oliver
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