Hi folks, How are you making Debian into UTF-8 and multilingual/multi-locale system while switching between normal gnome and Xfce? So far, I did not find this trivial.
For now, I made a proof of concept package with simple shell scripts to create my desired environment by heavily using Debian menu system. I packaged these experimental scripts as "m17n-env" and put them at: deb http://people.debian.org/~osamu/package/ ./ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~osamu/package/ ./ With this script and GDM, I have access to all the locales on my system with BASH and VIM while having easy switch over between Gnome and Xfce. Use customizable X start up feature with hooks to run ~/.xsession.d/* scripts is provided too. Also this script is much less invasive than previous attempts to play with locales. (No change to .bashrc nor .bash_profile) (IM "Input method" scripts are not filly functional nor tested yet.) I really appreciate your suggestion for achieving similar with ease or bug fixes to this package. Osamu ========================================================================== My thought backgrounds: Is there any helper script which activates X system with easily selectable primary language environment in UTF-8 encoded locale while maintaining easy access to all the locales on the system? Then my wish list grew: * I as normal user should be able to switch Gnome, Xfce, blackbox easily through GDM. (So I should not customize through ~/.xsession) * I as normal user should be able to start several programs consistently across desktop environment. Few facts: * Debian packages are well internationalized (i18n). - Many newer Gnome/KDE are already UTF-8 encoding compatible * Localization (l10n) helper scripts in archive seems to use primarily the non-UTF-8 encoding: - locale-env (CJK focus) - localization-config (Northern Europe focus) >> Both change user configuration invasively for single language which is not UTF-8. * UTF-8 conversion of current Debian is documented in: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/HOWTO/howto.html * GDM has nice and easy access to locale selection before starting X Defaults lists non UTF-8 and too busy. * There are few key programs which does not behave well under UTF-8: mc, ... (Debian menu does not start these right under ja_JP.UTF-8 .) Osamu PS: aptitude seems to ignore CJK locales now. So the menu change for aptitude may not be have been needed. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brussels Belgium, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract
