Epiphany Upgraded to 2.20.3 Crashes

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 10:47 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:59:52 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke  
> <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I haven't test in GDM 2.20.x yet, but as for the GDM 2.21.x (in MC CVS).  
> The login.conf and Language menu don't work, so you have to add GDM_LANG  
> in either /etc/profile or ~/.profile. It works great. I have in my  
> ~/.profile:
> 
> GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8;	export GDM_LANG
> 
> % locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=

This may also work in 2.20.  I have not checked.  Thanks, mezz.

Joe

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