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[Pau Amaro-Seoane <pau ari uni-heidelberg de>]

Hi Danilo!

Thanks for your quick answer...

Actually I fixed the problem a couple of hours before you wrote. I added
at the end of /etc/profile export LANG=ca_ES\ euro and now I have
everything in Catalan...

But... This also changed the default font of my terminal, so just for
couriousity I "switched" it off and tried your advice.

localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i ca_ES ca_ES.UTF-8

But then I realised that all "special" characters are not recognised any
more... I mean accents, cedille, german umlauts etc...

I posted the problem in

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=286665&sid=231013e9df05cf62dcec319dd6bac756

as you suggested. But, as a matter of fact, I had already resorted to
these forums, but since gentoo is becoming a too fashionable distro, you
never get an answer, because they get about thousand per hour, I guess...

Have any idea of how could I fix this?

By the way, it is very comforting to see that people at the other side of
the screen have humor sense!

cheerio,

Pau

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, [utf-8] Danilo Å egan wrote:

> Hi Pau,
>
> Today at 13:05, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote:
>
> > I am sorry that I write to you directly, but I have spent a lot of time on
> > this thing and could not find the solution...
> > I am trying to set locales and gnome to catalan in my gentoo laptop.
>
> You should ask similar question on Gentoo forums.  They're more likely
> to be able to give you correct "Gentoo-way" of doing it.  But, read
> below.
>
> > but when looking at locale -a, I don't find the catalan option ...
> > nevertheless I did
> >
> > # mkdir /etc/portage
> > # echo "sys-libs/glibc userlocales" >> /etc/portage/package.use
> >
> > # vi /etc/locales.build
>
> After this you probably need to do an equivalent of "locale-gen" on
> Debian-based systems.  You can also do the following manually:
>
> # localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i ca_ES ca_ES.UTF-8
> # localedef -c -f ISO-8895-1 -i ca_ES ca_ES
> ...
>
> With -f you give out character set to use, and with "-i" you give out
> locale definition to use.  Final parameter ("ca_ES.UTF-8" and "ca_ES"
> above) is the name of the locale you're generating.  You may want to
> try "ca_ES euro", but I don't know what other parameters you need for
> that (check source files in /usr/share/i18n/{charmaps|locales}/, these
> files are used for -f and -i parameters).
>
> But, if there's any Gentoo-specific way of doing it, you probably want
> to try that.
>
> Also, if you set LC_ALL, you need not set anything else except LANG.
> You can also set LANGUAGE variable to a colon-delimited list of values
> (eg. "ca_ES:ca:es:en" to try Catalan in Spain first, then simply
> Catalan, Spanish, and finally English).  LANGUAGE should work even if
> you don't have any locale installed, so try simply setting
> "LANGUAGE=ca_ES:ca" first (but this won't give you Catalan dates,
> weekday names, etc.).
>
> > Am I forgetting something? How can I "catalanise" my gentoo-gnome box?
>
> Draw funky images with word "Catalan" all over it, and use it as a
> background, for GDM themes, record startup sounds with you singing
> some Catalan song, etc :)
>
> Cheers,
> Danilo
>