Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:11:29 +0100 From: Eivind Nicolay Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locale problem updating 10.3 to 11.1 Message-ID: <20180219081129.GB62932@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1802190032250.24158@mail.fig.ol.no> References: <20180218230251.GA60727@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> <alpine.BSF.2.21.1802190032250.24158@mail.fig.ol.no>
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 12:33:26AM +0100, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:02+0100, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > After upgrading from 10.3 to 11.1 by building source (as of r329364),
> > I experienced some problems that seems to be related to locale.
> >
> > Using
> > > echo $LANG -- $LC_CTYPE
> > no_NO.ISO8859-1 -- no_NO.ISO8859-1
>
> That's nb_NO.ISO8859-1.
> nb for norsk bokmål.
Interesting, I had not noticed any nb_* in freebsd and can no longer
remember how I found no_NO. However, on 10.3 they seem to be the same:
> ls -ld /usr/share/locale/n{o,b}*ISO*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 11 jan 2017 /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 11 jan 2017 /usr/share/locale/nb_NO.ISO8859-15
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 11 jan 2017 /usr/share/locale/no_NO.ISO8859-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 11 jan 2017 /usr/share/locale/no_NO.ISO8859-15
> diff -urN /usr/share/locale/n{o,b}_NO.ISO8859-1
<nothing>
I'll recheck if they differ in 11.1.
> > ls emitted question mark for Norwegian characters (æøå), the menu
> > and title fonts in fvwm2 displayed unknown to me symbols except for
> > certain capital letters and yet other programs like the worker filemanager
> > truncated filenames at the first Norwegian letter.
> >
> > I had to revert to 10.3 because of this but if anybody has some clues
> > what may be the reason for this, I'd appreciate it.
>
> --
> Trond.
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