Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem getting UTF-8 locale

[Liviu Andronic]

On 10/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk > wrote:
>
>
> > However, the problem isn't emelFM2 specific. It is more linked to GTK+2
> > applications. For example, Qalculate! isn't able to display the pi sign
> > (the unicode pi sign). Or Xfce cannot display corefonts (Arial, Tahoma,
> > Verdana). Instead of displaying a unicode character (my guess), it
> displays
> > an incomprehensible series of numbers.
> >
> > My guess is that it has to be somehow linked to locale, but I cannot see
> > how. I have a fresh 2006.1 Gentoo installation, with a customised kernel
> > having nls_utf8 built-in. The only crucial change that I made was
> upgrading
> > Xorg to 7.1. I generally build all my applications with +nls flag.
>
> Only suggestion I can think of is to follow this:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml

Finally, I found the problem. It wasn't linked to the locale. As you said,
it was correctly
set. The problem with emelFM2 was that it was expecting LC_MESSAGES to
be explicitely set. This

is easily configurable.

However, I have a problem with the rendering of certain fonts. I'll start a
new thread for this (problem rendering unicode characters).

Thanks for the help.




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Liviu