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Am Sonntag, 20. Juli 2008 schrieb Miernik: |
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> Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de> wrote: |
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> >> miernik@przehyba ~ $ locale |
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> >> LANG=en_DK.UTF-8 |
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> >> miernik@przehyba ~ $ locale -a |
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> >> en_DK.utf8 |
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> > |
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> > And you don't see the difference? |
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> But... |
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> przehyba ~ # cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep en | grep DK |
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> en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8 |
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> en_DK ISO-8859-1 |
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> przehyba ~ # |
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> So why 'locale -a' tells me that the available locale has "utf8" at the |
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> end, while the file in /usr/share/i18n/ tells me its capital leters |
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> "UTF-8"? And all documentation I can remember tells me to use ".UTF-8", |
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> I've never in my life seen ".utf8" before, I use locales with ".UTF-8" |
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> ending on Debian since ages, why here is this strange lowercase "utf8" |
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> in one place, and how did it happen to get there? |
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OK, you're right. A little bit of further reading (German Gentoo UTF8 Howto) |
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revealed that they should both be equivalent. |
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> UTF-8 files don't work when 'cat' |
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Are you sure these files are really utf8 files? What does the "file" command |
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tell you about those files. Maybe you need to run iconv on them, first. |
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> , and starting an xterm |
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> still shows "Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C". |
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> Only now "locale" command shows the lowercase version. |
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This is a different thing, look at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90972 |
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HTH... |
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Dirk |
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