Re: changing to UTF-8
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 02:52:00AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 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):
Hmmmm. I must hit something wrong...
Please try 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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