problem setting language in gdm2.4

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 01:01, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:26:33AM -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
> >
> > Looks like gdm-2.4.4.x changed things.  Look for ~/.dmrc.
> 
> I have that one.  Here are the contents:
> 
> [Desktop]
> Session=gnome

Try adding:

Language=en_US.ISO_8859-1

And see if that helps.

Joe

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