Re: Problems with special characters - Solved!

[Christoph Fabianek <e9725236 stud4 tuwien ac at>]

When I read your mail I just remembered a Debian Weekly News article months 
ago: You have to insert in /etc/locale.gen all used character encodings and 
after inserting the line "en_US ISO-8859-1" and running "locale-gen" 
everything worked fine!

Thanks to all,
Christoph


On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:12, Jon K Hellan wrote:
> Christoph Fabianek <e9725236 stud4 tuwien ac at>(by way of Christoph 
Fabianek <e9725236 stud4 tuwien ac at>) writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have the following problem with Gnumeric 1.0.1: Text containing special
> > characters (e.g., äöüß) is not displayed correctly in the cells i.e., it
> > only displays the characters till the first special character (example:
> > "zurückgeben" becomes "zur"), although the text is shown completely in
> > the "data entry area".
> >
> > I have recently set up my computer from scratch (Debian/testing with
> > gnumeric from unstable) and perhaps something is missing, but no other
> > applications (including Gnome-Apps) show this behaviour. Does anyone know
> > a solution?
>
> I had the same problem, when I was running Gnumeric in an invalid locale.
> If you run it in an ISO-8859-1 locale, e.g. en_US, the strings render
> correctly.
>
> I had my xterms configured with en_US, so things looked right when
> starting Gnumeric from an xterm. But the desktop had locale "english",
> which doesn't exist.
>
> I fixed it by manually changing a line in ~/.gnome/gdm, under section
> [session], from "lang=english" to "lang=en_US".
>
> I believe the gdm's (gnome login window's) language selector maintains
> this entry in the file, but there seemed to be no way to select a
> valid English locale. A Debian packaging problem?
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Jon Kåre