problem setting language in gdm2.4

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 01:30, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> 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.

Try:

en_US.ISO8859-1

Joe

-- 
PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/attachments/20031005/94994d55/attachment.bin