Re: Getting Rid Of UTF-8

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:07:13PM +0200, Grønn Demon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use Gentoo Linux and would like to get rid of UTF-8 in Gnome.
> Although I have 'export LANG="de_DE euro"' in my ~/.bashrc, Gnome would 
> still use UTF-8, which is terribly annoying since some fonts are screwed 
> up and I have to set the terminal to ISO-8859-15 manually each time I 
> start it.
> 
> But these problems only occur when I use gdm; with startx everything 
> works like a charm.
> It seems like gdm simply ignores my settings: I hadn't properly 
> configured my ATI drivers, which caused startx to crash, but gdm could 
> still start Gnome. Also I had configured blue cursors in ~/.Xdefaults, 
> which only appeared for a few seconds with gdm - with startx they stay 
> there.

GDM does not read .bashrc, because .bashrc is for interactive shell sessions
(thus when you log in on the console you get it read).  environment settings
must be made in ~/.profile, and bash should be set up to read ~/.profile from
~/.bash_profile as the default behaviour).  Basically setting environment in
.bashrc is utterly wrong.

Although there is a caveat that most startup scripts that distributions use
will somehow modify the language according to some setting.  I have no clue
what Gentoo does.

> Furthermore, I'd like to set the gdm login screen's language to German.
> How would I do that?

The system language must be set to german.  I have NO clue how gentoo handles
languages.  Probably modifying /etc/profile might do the trick.  On redhat
there is a file /etc/sysconfig/i18n which contains system settings.

George

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