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Re: having problem with locales ?



On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 07:49:27PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
>On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Mehmet Fatih Akbulut wrote:
>
>> hi all,
>which locales should i select to see characters like ?,?,?,?,?,? correctly
>on konsole ?
>en_US UTF-8 doesnt show them right :'(
>an example output of a php code: [in english: file successfully opened and
>then closed.]
>>Dosya ba?ar? ile a??ld? ve kapat?ld?. > which is what i want to see.
>>Dosya ba?ar?? ile a????ld?? ve kapat??ld??. > which is what i see now ...
>O.S. and all installed programs are in english [so i dont want to switch
>locales to tr_TR], but sometimes i need the above native characters.
>what should i do to see such characters correctly ?
>many thanks in advance.
>
>--------
>
>en_US is english .. utf-8 by itself doesn't mean anything
>its usually gonna be  xx_yy.utf-8 and other case sensitive variables
>
>you have to set the proper LC variables ( a couple of the dozen+
>variables ) if you want a mixture of some characters and not others ...
>and probably its keyboard dependent too

Often it's enough to set only LANG.

/M

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