another locale issue???

mrknowitall · Apprentice Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 173

hi guys,

i'm working with linux for a while, but i don't seem to get along well with locales...

I use the KDE desktop environment. The problem is, that sometimes for german umlauts i get a "�" instead of the right one. This doesn't happen when typing, like when typing "ü". I really don't have a clue where it's coming from. I use unicode use flag in my /etc/make.conf.

this are the config files related:

/etc/locale.gen

/etc/env.d/02locale

and of course in my .config file i have enabled support for unicode.

i don't care if compile messages appear in german or english (though english would be better), but i want a straight german desktop. and of course, i want to get rid of those strange symbols, since they prevent me from accessing the files properly.

any help appreciated!

cheers!

alex
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dermund · Apprentice Joined: 28 Aug 2007 Posts: 205 Location: Sprawl

Hi Alex,

Logicien · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:21 pm Post subject:

Hello,
you probably know, but the fonts in use needs to contain the characters you want to display. You need to have the locales you want to be active for the applications use them by default. You sometimes need to set them manually even with the goods locales in service. Some applications can not support them at all. In plus, the file you want to see need to be encoded like it is set for the locales in use, or you have to place the application in the encoding of the file, or convert the file in the good encoding. A lot of files are not encoded in UTF8 but ISO-9660 and sometimes in ASCII. My desktop is in fr_FR-UTF8. I get some wrong characters too, specially with the manpages who use both ISO-9660 and UTF8. Subject more complex that it look.
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