problem setting language in gdm2.4

[Glenn Johnson]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 11:54:09PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 23:35, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Yeah, mine, too.  Do you have a ~/.gnome2/gdm file?  If so, what is
> lang set to?

No such file here.  What should be in it?

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Glenn Johnson
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