Epiphany Upgraded to 2.20.3 Crashes

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 23:02 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:11:53 -0500
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 17:10 -0800, Frank Jahnke wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 19:39 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > I run the spell checker on a similar
> > > > > computer, and it seems to work OK.  Odd...
> > > > 
> > > > Not odd.  Your LANG must be set to C on the failing system.  If you set
> > > > it to an actual language (e.g. en_US.UTF-8) then the spell checker will
> > > > work.  This is a known bug.
> > > 
> > > Bingo!  The failing box did not have it set.  I'll set LANG and try
> > > again.
> > > 
> > > Incidentally, what is the preferred US language?  UTF-8 or ISO8859?  I
> > > have some very odd characters on-screen using the ISO setting.
> > 
> > I've switched to using UTF-8.
> 
> Where are you setting LANG?  I've got it set (to (en_AU.UTF-8)
> in my .profile (and exported), but it is set to C by the time
> a terminal window starts up.  I used to have all of this
> working, but I'm afraid that I've blown away all of my useful
> configuration while trying to get epiphany to behave.
> 
> I can confirm that manually running "env LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
> epiphany" at a terminal prompt results in a happy browser.  Yay!
> Bit of a harsh failure mode, though...

If you use GDM, you will need to select your language from the GDM
Language menu.  GDM is currently broken with respect to login.conf, so
that is the only way to get this working for now.

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: 195 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/attachments/20080124/f2db230e/attachment.pgp