problem setting language in gdm2.4

[Glenn Johnson]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:56:40PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 00:58, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> > I tried to set my language to "American English" in gdm2.4.4.3 but
> > it gives an error the "en.US" is not found and it uses the system
> > default.  The problem with that is the system default does not show
> > all of the characters. This is particularly a problem with trying
> > to use digraphs in vim running in a gnome-terminal. Setting the
> > language in gdm used to do the right thing.
> >
> > Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> I just did this, and it worked (i.e. it set LANG to en_US.ISO_8859-1).
> Check your /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/locale.aliases file to see what American
> English is mapped to.

The following is grepped from locale.alias in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm:

English(American)      en_US.UTF-8,en_US.ISO_8859-1

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Glenn Johnson
glennpj at charter.net