On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 02:34, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Hey folks: > > I need to have a french locale installed for ht://Dig. I've installed it > with dpkg-reconfigure locales. (I've even set it as the system default, > I'm that desperate right now.) When I do locale -a it's listed; however, > ht://dig needs a specific file that I can't find. > > Here are the instructions from the ht://dig site: > Some systems, however, define only the accented letters used for a given > language, so "your mileage may vary." The important thing is that the > directory for your locale definition must have a file named LC_CTYPE in > it. For example, on many Linux distributions, a language-specific locale > like fr won't contain this file, but country-specific locales like fr_FR > or fr_CA will. If you don't find any appropriate locales installed on your > system, try obtaining and installing the locale definition files from your > OS distribution. Also, once you've set your locale, you need to reindex > all your documents in order for the locale to take effect in the word > database. This means rerunning the "rundig" script, or running "htdig -i" > and htmerge (or htpurge in the 3.2 betas). > http://htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.10 > > I've got fr_CA (it technically has an ISO well as part of the name, but I > already know how to deal with that), but when I do updatedb I can't find a > copy of LC_CTYPE. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Resources in French are > welcome as well as English. (English is preferred.) > > emma > > -- > Emma Jane Hogbin > [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] Typing: $ locate LC_CTYPE on my system yields: /usr/lib/locale/ar_EG/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/en_CA/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/en_GB/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/fr_CA/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ru_RU/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ru_RU.koi8r/LC_CTYPE (I have *reasons* for this eclectic selection - I have a couple friends that have been using web-based email on my system in order to read email in non-latin character sets - something they can't get Outlook to handle consistently.) Anyhow, hopefully you can find that everything is where it should be. HTH -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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