[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#392738: Bug#392738: xfce4: xfdesktop expecting UTF-8 aware locales

[corsac at corsac.net (Yves-Alexis Perez)]

Please keep the bug CC:ed

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:02:26AM +0000, Pascal Dupuis wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:18:06PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On ven, 2006-10-13 at 11:49 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > > I would say that once every X app is UTF-8 aware, I will start with
> > > > LANG as fr_BE.UTF-8. So yes, it's a hack, and yes it's temporary. But
> > > > it touchs every person using this kind of hack to have apps not utf-8
> > > > aware running correctly. 
> > > 
> > > I run Xfce using iso8859-15 locales without any problem. I just run
> > > xfdesktop with fr_FR locales, and it worked, accents are correctly
> > > displayed.
> > > 
> > Do you still have issues with this?
> > 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This issue still exists on a machine running under lenny. On two
> others, one with etch, one under unstable, the issue seems solved.

Could you try with a fresh user on the machine were there problem is? If it
works on the other box I'd say it's a config issue.

Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis