andrew <andrew@ilium.invalid> wrote:
> On 2007-10-14, Damjan <gdamjan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> But adding this to ~./bashrc had little effect on Terminal and killed
> >> vim fairly badly. Am I missing something obvious here?
> >
> > Your X session starts and never reads ~/.bashrc .. so that wouldn't work.
> > The correct place for per-user X session environment would be ~/.xprofile
> > (which could source .bashrc)
> So the change I made in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh would actually be a
> _global_ setting for all users? Not so much of a problem on this
> single user machine but something I will keep in mind for the future.
> So you don't have to read back the change was from:
> export LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1
> to
> export LANG=enUS.UTF-8
X is picky about case in locale-names. Other programs don'รค seem that picky.
export LANG=en_US.utf8
is the correct way for me on slack 10.1 that works (programs started from an
rxvt don't complain about missing locales). You can get a list of available
locales with 'locale -a'.
Slackware's xdm (gdm and probably kdm too) reads ~/.profile and ~/.xprofile
at login. So in order to get all programs running correctly you ought to fix
your ~/.profile or ~/.xprofile and then log out an in again.
Also note that usually LC_ALL overrides LANG. I have the habit of setting
every LC_* one by one, and leaving LC_ALL empty (if set, will overwrite
every other LC_ variable). This way I can get the C-behaviour of sorting the
output of 'ls -la'. Also I don't get bitten by the no-more-case-sensitive
regexps in bash when LC_COLLATE=C (or POSIX).
This works for me;
$ locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8
LC_TIME=C
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8
LC_NAME=en_US.utf8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8
LC_ALL=
$
> The only problem I have had is a few borked copyright and punctuation
> marks in man pages but I believe there is a fix for this by specifying
> non-utf-8 encoding for man pages only: not sure how to do this.
Either make an alias for 'man';
alias man='LC_ALL=C man'
Or define your LESSCHARSET as utf-8
I prefer the second method.
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