Re: How to display norwegian letters?

[Jon K Hellan <hellan acm org>]

Rune Mossige <r mossige sensewave com> writes:

> Hello,
> I have just downloaded and installed Gnumeric 1.0.4 on a FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
> box, and started playing around with it.
>
> So far, I have only two questions:
>
> 1 - How do I trick gnumeric to display norwegian characters (æøå) in the
>     cells... They are displayed correct in the edit field, and is printed OK,
>       but in the cells, everything after, and including, the first norwegian
>       character is not displayed. How do I fix that?

This is almost certainly a locale problem. You get this bug if you run
gnumeric under the C locale. To test if this is the problem, set the
environment variable LC_ALL to an ISO 8859.1 locale, e.g no_NO or
en_US and start gnumeric. With the bash shell, this works: 

$ LC_ALL=no_NO gnumeric.

The locale must be installed. I know how to tell which locales are
installed on Debian, but not for the general case.

If my suggestion is correct, 'æøå' should now display correctly. It
did for me.

You must then find the right config file to modify. This could depend
on distribution, desktop environment and shell.

> 2 - Is there a way to select a function to be inserted into a cell, similar to
>     what excel offers? As I am quite new to gnumeric, I do not remember all
>       available functions yet. (where do I get a list of available
>       functions?)

Press the "f(x)" button in the standard (i.e. top) toolbar.

Jon Kåre