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Date:      Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:47:01 +0200
From:      Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem with german umlauts and gtk apps (maybe unicode issue)
Message-ID:  <4DF0B2B5.3050302@bah.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110609132149.77846282.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <20110608195705.GA60747@freebsd.org>	<4DF0AB82.5090109@bah.homeip.net> <20110609132149.77846282.freebsd@edvax.de>

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2011-06-09 13:21, Polytropon skrev:
> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:16:18 +0200, Bernt Hansson<bernt@bah.homeip.net>  wrote:
>> 2011-06-08 21:57, Alexander Best skrev:
>>> hi there,
>>
>> Hallo
>>
>>> for me the output of `locale -a` looks like this:
>>>
>>> LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-15
>>> LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15
>>> LC_COLLATE="en_GB.ISO8859-15"
>>> LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO8859-15
>>> LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.ISO8859-15
>>> LC_MONETARY=de_DE.ISO8859-15
>>> LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.ISO8859-15"
>>> LC_ALL=
>>
>> What is the reason for setting that?
>
> The reason is to have finer control over certain
> language aspects. For example, if one wants to have
> collation and date specific settings for the german
> language, but english program messages, LC_* can be
> used to address things individually. LC_ALL sets _one_
> definition for all aspects, and LANG... I think LANG
> will be used if LC_* aren't present... not fully sure.
>
>
>
>> I only set this in the .login_conf;
>>
>> me:\
>>           :charset=iso-8859-1:\
>>           :lang=sv_SE.ISO8859-1:
>>
>> And all is fine and dandy, except gqview only understands utf-8
>
> I assume this does define LC_* / LANG variables?

It defines LANG=sv_SE.ISO8859-1 no LC*

> I know this setting is present in the system, but I
> never really used login.conf. :-)

login.conf is system wide. .login_conf is not.

Example from xterm

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