Re: Getting Rid Of UTF-8

[Grønn Demon <webmaster groenndemon de>]

Hi,

> Why do you have that? gdm sets your $LANG for you.

Because that's the recommended way to set your locale on Gentoo, AFAIK.

> Changing it for a
> single application (your terminal) is bound to mess stuff up. Just
> choose a non-UTF-8 locale in the locale chooser in gdm, and you're set!

Someone at Gentoo forums now figured out that one has to choose "system 
default" instead of "German" to get ISO-8859-15.
Now XMMS and Gnome terminal work as they are supposed to, but 
Thunderbird displays your name incorrectly in the "To:" field.
Instead of "S�Hansen", it only says "? Hansen"... :-/
My nick ("Gr�emon") however is displayed correctly in the "From:" 
field above.

> $LANG has to be set to de_DE for GDM. You can do it system wide somehow
> (don't know too much about gentoo),

According to some Gentoo documentation, this is not recommended because 
root always should have a standard locale (POSIX or so).
Or maybe I could set it system-wide and set it seperately for root...

> or you can add it at the top of
> your /etc/init.d/gdm (or whatever it's called in gentoo).

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Regards,

Marvin