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Re: accented characters in linux/Debian?



On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:02:45AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> I finally got an answer, and it worked: just set the LANG and LC_ALL
> environment variables to pt_PT@ISO-8859-1 (Portugal, in my case). I
> still don't understand why accented characters work with any other
> application even with LANG set to C, as it was before... And I don't
> really want to change locales anyway, I want my system in English, but I
> can live with a temporary change if that means being able to use OOo.
> 
> This whole thing smells like a font problem...

Hi,
  if you want your system in English but want to be capable of
using accents you can just change the LC_CTYPE to LC_CTYPE=pt_PT,
you dont need to change the LANG and the LC_ALL. Mine is
LC_CTYPE=pt_BR and works fine.

HTH,
  Rafael Sasaki


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