utf8 xterm problems

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 07:12 +0100, Uwe Laverenz wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 04:11:16PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > The default character set used by GDM is always UTF-8 if it exists
> > (see /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/locale.alias).  If you want a custom locale,
> > edit ~/.gnome2/gdm, and set lang equal to the locale you desire.  On
> > your next login, it should be set in gnome-panel.
> 
> I've been trying to change my locale from utf-8 to de_DE.ISO8859-15 and
> created a ~/.gnome2/gdm file like this:
> 
>    #!/bin/sh
> 
>    LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-15
>    export LANG
>    GDM_LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-15
>    export GDM_LANG
> 
> I think this is wrong, because it has no effect. :-)
> 
> Is this feature documented somewhere or could you please give me an
> example of the correct syntax in this file?

[session]
lang=de_DE.ISO8859-15

I'm surprised this file didn't already exist.

Joe

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