From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 17:21:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A27C16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:21:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.208.78.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C08943D2D for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:21:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j2BHLM1K075054 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:21:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost)j2BHLMH8075053 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:21:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:21:22 -0800 From: Steve Kargl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050311172121.GB74913@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Setting up a danish locale X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:21:22 -0000 Problem: We have a visiting scientist from Denmark, whose laptop died a horrible death. A colleagued asked if I would loan him a currently unused system in my office. I've set up FreeBSD 5.3 on the system and everything appears to work except for setting up a Danish locale. Disclaimer: I searched the Handbook, used google, and spent a few hours reading up of login.conf, locale support, etc. But, we are stuck without the danish locale. I have setup a ~/,login_conf in the user home directory that contains dhcp-78-77:kargl[201] cat .login_conf me:\ :charset=ISO8859-1:\ :lang=da_DK.ISO8859-1: When we login, we see that the locale is set dhcp-78-77:kargl[202] locale LANG=da_DK.ISO8859-1 LC_CTYPE="da_DK.ISO8859-1" LC_COLLATE="da_DK.ISO8859-1" LC_TIME="da_DK.ISO8859-1" LC_NUMERIC="da_DK.ISO8859-1" LC_MONETARY="da_DK.ISO8859-1" LC_MESSAGES="da_DK.ISO8859-1" LC_ALL= But any attempt to enter a danish character in for examples xemacs fails. From my colleagues comment a "Right-Alt / o" should yield a lower case "o" with a slash through it. His system is running Xorg 6.7.0_9. I suspect that I need to change/update his xorg.conf file. Any insight into setting up the Danish environment would be appreciate. -- Steve ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Steve