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Re: changing to UTF-8



Hi,

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:55:29PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> In order to avoid problems with CUPS (yes Master, I shall comply) and get
> consistency within my LAN, I'm finally giving up on the ISO-8859-1 locale
> and switching my desktop host to use UTF-8.  I've already corrected
> /etc/locale.gen, to change the default locale to UTF-8:
> 
> $ egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/locale.gen
> en_US UTF-8
> en_US.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1
> 
> then reran locale-gen.  For the most part everything works fine.  I ran
> utf8migrationtool, which found no problems.  'locale' shows that everything
> is 'en_US', and 'locale charmap' returns UTF-8.  And CUPS and hplip will
> now talk to each other again, hooray.  But there is one minor problem:

If I were you:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

> When I view some man pages, some characters, e.g. a bold-face pipe or
> single-quote character, are displayed wrong in the terminal, usually as an
> â (a with circumflex).  If I set LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1 first, then the
> characters are displayed correctly.

what is out put of following commands (compair with mine):

$ cat /etc/default/locale 
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
$ env |egrep "(^LC|LANG)"
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
$ cat ~/.dmrc


[Desktop]
Session=gnome


Well... read http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch08.en.html#_the_locale



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