Re: cant write national characters - locales issue?
> hi, i've got problems with writing some national (slovak) characters in
> my system. i've got Debian Sarge and i'm running KDE 3.3.2.
>
> i've got "locales" package installed and configured to support both
> "en_US.ISO-8859-1" and "sk_SK.ISO-8859-2", "sk_SK" configured as default.
>
> i also checked my "LC_CTYPE" variable and set it to "sk_SK.ISO-8859-2"
> in "/etc/bash.bashrc" like this:
> LC_CTYPE=sk_SK.ISO-8859-2
> export LC_CTYPE
> to make sure it is always set to the desired slovak charset.
>
> i also installed slovak support for KDE, the "kde-i18n-sk" package.
>
> i've got no problems with this in OpenOffice.org but i still can't write
> these "special" chars in editors like Kate, Kwrite, Quanta Plus..
> i get no error messages.
>
> i know i had this problem in the past too, but setting up locales and
> LC_CTYPE as i've described worked for me that time, now it doesn't..
> could you give me a hint to solve this?
> thanks in advance
I'm not sure if this is what you need, but in KDE you can set up alternate
keyboard layouts in the Control Center, under Regional and Accessibility ->
Keyboard Layout.
Good luck,
Andrew.
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