* Alex Malinovich (demonbane@the-love-shack.net) [030616 12:14]: > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 07:07, btom@passagen.se wrote: > > Hi, > > None of the virtual terminals available on my debian (woody) system are able > > to display international characters, especially Swedish ones like (å,ä,ö). > > I used to have the same problem on the console but this disappeared when > > doing a > > When you say "virtual terminals" are you referring to an xterm or > gnome-terminal, or are you referring to the actual virtual terminals on > the system? (e.g. Alt-F1 through Alt-F6) If you mean the actual virtual > terminals on the system, (e.g. Alt-F2), then I've been having the same > problem. If you look back a few days in the list I had a question about > UTF-8 support. I'm able to get all of the characters just fine in > gnome-terminal, but when I go to a console, the characters don't show > up. > > > >dumpkeys (in xterm) > > Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console > > > > This is because dumpkeys doesn't work in a graphical shell AFAIK. I have > the same problem. I thought there was a way to specify the tty with a > command line option, but I just checked and I don't see one. > > > > perl -pe'' > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > > LANGUAGE = "swedish", > > LC_ALL = (unset), > > LANG = "sv_SE.UTF-8" > > are supported and installed on your system. > > You should set LC_ALL to something. Unfortunately, locales doesn't do it > for you. I just added it to my .bashrc. Actually, LC_ALL doesn't need to be set (and it probably shouldn't). For all of the locale environment variables LC_*, LC_ALL overrides any value that you may have set. LANG is used as a default. For example, my environment looks like this: wingnut:~% locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= if I set LC_ALL to anything, I'd lose my ability to have a mainly- english system, with the ability to input japanese text, and to have my collation done the old C/Posix way (A-Za-z instead of AaBb--YyZz). Using the LC_* variables this way is much more flexible than setting LC_ALL. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "If you can put it on a T-shirt, it's speech... To enjoin the T-shirts as a circumvention device is ludicrous." --Robin Gross, EFF staff attorney
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