locales not working in terminals (except konsole)

[coyotl]

I use kubuntu 7.04 in Norwegian.
I have set language to no, installed all lang packs.

Seems to be something with the utf locales, the no chars æ ø å work fine in konsole but not in Eterm and rxvt which i mostly use.

i tried switching to ISO locale --then the chars just went dead (as opposed to printing garbled signs)

I mostly use Windowmaker.

I hear ubuntu is supposed to be better set up than kubuntu but it works ok and i like having kde available so if i could solve this little snag..

[penguin.ch]

Re: locales not working in terminals (except konsole)

[Alt][F2] kcontrol > Regional & Accessibility | Keyboard Layout > Enable ... (?)

[coyotl]

Re: locales not working in terminals (except konsole)

Afraid it's a little more complicated..

1. Your suggestion works in kde, fine.
But I mostly work in Windowmaker.

2. Chars work fine in X --and now actually also in all terminals except Eterm.
Not sure what I did --possible it was installing uxterm (w unicode support) which them provided unicode fonts for the other terminals.

3. The problem is unicode locale. I notice that chars are garbled also in xfe 0.88 --apparetly hasnt unicode.

4. the real problem here is that it seems virtually impossible to get the system to change locale to an ISO locale --that would have solved it.

(I tried gnome based ubuntu, same problem)

Actually it's not a problem, i can live with this --i use eterm 'cause i can use random pics
--space photos etc. with it --norwegian chars are seldom needed in a terminal

Otherwise (k)ubuntu has improved a lot since last time i tried it. Perfect for a lazy user like me 8)

[SheeEttin]

Re: locales not working in terminals (except konsole)

Perhaps "man -k locale" will point you in the right direction.

[coyotl]

Re: locales not working in terminals (except konsole)

Thanks.

As you no doubt know it produces this:

stein@arcadia:~$ man -k locale
locale (1) - Get locale-specific information.
locale (5) - Describes a locale definition file
locale (7) - Description of multi-language support
locale-gen (8) - compile a list of locale definition files
locale.alias (5) - Locale name alias data base
Locale::gettext (3pm) - message handling functions
localedef (1) - compile locale definition files
localepurge (8) - removing superfluous locale data
lxterm (1) - locale-sensitive wrapper for xterm
update-locale (8) - Modify global locale settings


How do you chose a section for viewing?

Anyway this 'problem' is just a freak thing with no practical importance.
I'm not wasting time on it.
The only thing that has a problem now is Eterm, and i could probably set it up to use
a unicode font.
I upgraded xfe to 1.0 using a package i compiled and built for debian Etch, now it works fine

Now changing locale has obviously been a persistent problem --I found various fixes for Dapper but none that work on Feisty.

[penguin.ch]

Re: locales not working in terminals (except konsole)

Afraid it's a little more complicated.

No problem - here's an accordingly complicated solution (to which I've resorted to make my main system "talk English but type German", so to speak ...): http://www.penguin.ch/dokuwiki/doku.php/debian:shell

[coyotl]

Re: locales not working in terminals (except konsole)

Thanks --I have something to chew on for a while there, better take it slow and
easy. Interesting though.

but no time now..

[coyotl]

Re: locales not working in terminals (except konsole)

Strange.
My /etc/environment looks like this

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
LANG=nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
LANGUAGE="nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:en"

but the locale command returns this:

LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:en
LC_CTYPE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="nb_NO.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


:P

beats me

Have checked out Eterm though. The problem is that it lacks unicode support, simple as that.
I want my locale settings to stay as they are, no need to break other things to get this
to work.

[kubicle]

Re: locales not working in terminals (except konsole)

How do you chose a section for viewing?

man 5 locale

(to view section 5 on locale)

man -a locale

(to view all sections on locale in succession)