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kEiNsTeiN
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Location: Germany
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 Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject: localization, utf-8, umlauts, CONFUSION!!! |
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hi! After reading about 15 how-tos about UTF-8, I need some help.
First: I have a german keyboard, and want to be able to use the german special keys (umlauts). Right now, with my very broken config, I'm not able to (I get ö,À,Ì).
But: I don't want the everything to be German, but English instead. Right now, "man" and a few other programs are German, the rest is English (?).
my config:
/etc/env.d/02locale
| Code: | LANG="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" |
(I removed LC_ALL, as it would overwrite LC_MESSAGES, but as this didn't make "man" english again, I kinda gave up...)
/etc/locale.gen
| Code: | en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_DE ISO-8859-1
de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
de_DE.UTF-8@euro UTF-8
de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 |
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
| Code: | Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de" |
weirdly, I can use umlauts in a normal, non-X console....
wtf??? help!!! |
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frostschutz
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Joined: 22 Feb 2005
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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I'm using en_US.UTF-8 for everything... by far not an optimal solution (date format etc) but mixing locale is even worse for me.
So obviously everything on my system is in English, but you can still use German keyboard layout, Umlauts, and everything else that requires UTF-8 support (for example support for CJK in various applications).
The main problem with your locale seems to be that de_DE.UTF-8@euro makes no sense whatsoever. euro is not UTF-8, but an extended ISO8859-1 charset that had the character added. This locale either does not exist at all or is some messed up creation of yours.
As for your xorg.conf, you may want to add 'Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"'.
Other than that, it seems fine. Make sure you also got UTF-8 fonts (both in Console and in your X font paths / X Font Server configuration file), also check your /etc/conf.d/ directory for charset / unicode settings and enable them accordingly. |
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