fonts, locales, charsets

[Gabriele Persia <g.persia@libero.it>]

Hi all,

I need some info (manual/guide/tutorial...) about locales and fonts.

I would like to understand font in gtk (vs kde) apps.

1) fonts missing in kde "fonts settings" are available in gtk apps (e.g. XMMS) 
and viceversa.

2) if I mount a vfat (win98) partition with iocharset=iso8859-15
konqueror shows file names correctly (e.g. italian letters like à è é ì ò ù )
while xmms playlist does not (I tried with many fonts and w/wo multibyte 
charset support)

3) dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_US.ISO-8859-15... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  it_IT.ISO-8859-1... done
  it_IT.UTF-8... done
  it_IT.UTF-8@euro... done
  it_IT.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
Generation complete.

default is "en_US.ISO-8859-15".

I'm sure I don't need them all, which one should I drop safely? (I need 
italian locale with euro support)

4) sometime (when locale is not ISO-8859-1) I get these warnings:

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
or
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C


Is there any book or any web-page where I can find info ?

Thanks in advance.
Gabriele

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