problem setting language in gdm2.4

[Glenn Johnson]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:19:02AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> 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.

I tried it, but no joy.  When I logged in with gdm, I got the following
message in a dialog box:

        Language en_US.ISO_8859-1 does not exist.
        Using System default.

Of course, that brings me right back where I was.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj at charter.net