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Säck
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
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Location: Switzerland
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 Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject: can't change to utf-8 locale anymore. |
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Hi
I have a very strange problem. Normally I use the iso-8859-1 locale but I write all my homepages in utf-8 encoding.
All i did until now was
| Code: | | export LANG="de_CH.utf-8" |
Or UTF-8/utf8 I can't really remeber. But when I started gvim after that, I could write easily in utf-8.
But starngly this doesen't seem to work anymore. When I do the changes in a console and then start gvim it still uses iso-8859-1 as charset and also kate doesn't seem to be able to edit utf-8 encoded files??
could this be a problem that i have updatet xorg 6.8.0 ?
I don't know where to search for the error, I've also read many infos about the charset here in the forum, but i don't seem to advance.
Thanks
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fctk
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Joined: 28 Jan 2004
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Location: Milan, Italy, EU
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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try:
| Code: | | LANG="de_CH.utf-8" gvim |
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barry
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Joined: 01 May 2002
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Location: UK
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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Do
| Code: | | locale -a | grep de_CH |
You should see something like:
| Code: | de_CH
de_CH.iso88591
de_CH.utf8
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Have you recently emerged glibc? |
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Säck
Tux's lil' helper
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
I had also the idea that it's a problem with glibc since i upgraded it to the unstable branch. on wiki-gentoo i read the howto to install gcc-3.4 and there it was noted that i had to update it.
So my super idea was to downgrade glibc .... compilation error, and my whole system crashed right after the error..couldn't boot the computer anymore and couldn't even chroot inot the gentoo installation from the live-cd anymore.
...So that's the reason why I didn't write back anymore ... Now I'm kind of uncertain what to do...I had to use the ordi, so I tried once freebsd (i'm wirting this on freebsd right now). But i still have place left and i'm not sure wheter to install gentoo again on my notbook...compilation time. But the biggest problem of that decission is, that emerge is SO great (if you use it with precaution and don't use unstable packages 
Maybe debian sid .... i'm not sure yet.
so long and thanks for the help...but i guess it was really the problem of glibc
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Säck
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| Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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I had a look at debian. I really like apt-get, but still, I decided to rest with gentoo. I just prefer gentoo over debian (maybe because I know it better)
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