Re: Importing text files with umlauts and sharp-s's

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Alexandra Walford wrote:

> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
>   On Wed, 22 May 2002 14:54:21 +0200, "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)"
>   <dm zensunni demon nl> wrote:
>
> > Yes. You need to tell your system that accented characters are to
> > be considered printable, e.g. by setting the LC_CTYPE environment
> > variable to "en_US.ISO8859-1".
>
> Well, setting LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL to various things like en_US.ISO8859-1
> or de_DE.ISO8859-1 makes no difference, so on to the next thing...

Try this:

1. As root

cd /usr/share/i18n
localedef -c -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US

2. In your login file (e.g. ~/.profile) set

LANG=en_US.iso88591
LC_ALL=

Logout and log back in again.

If the characters don't come out right now it's definitely a problem
with gnumeric.

Allin Cottrell.