On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 08:32:30PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:54:26 -0500 | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > I have a gnome panel launcher for gvim. For the command it simply | > says 'gvim'. I have ash as /bin/sh and /bin/bash is my shell. In | > ~/.bashrc I have | > | > export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 | | Thing is, when X starts up it doesn't read your ~/.bashrc. When you | run an xterm, bash is fired up which then reads the ~/.bashrc. The | disconnect between the two environments is somewhat annoying, but | can be easily dealt with by creating an ~/.xsession file that either | export that variable or sources the ~/.bashrc. Certain display | managers also can set Language variables (but might be limited). | | #! /bin/sh | export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 | WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/window-manager | exec $WINDOW_MANAGER | | Or some such...
I tried that (after you suggested it) : #!/bin/bash # (use bash to read .bashrc :-)) echo "`date`" >> ~/LOG echo "$LANG" >> ~/LOG echo "" >> ~/LOG gnome-session In the log file I see that LANG is set properly, but I still get the same results with panel launchers. It must be that gnome-session does its own thing wrt the environment, but I don't see any mention of it in the manpage. Anyways, I did some more reading in the vim help files on multibyte stuff. (the fontset looks like a solution to a problem I hadn't reasearched yet) There is a "language" variable that I can set in my .vimrc, so I should be able to solve the issue, although only for gvim. Thanks, -D -- If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup.
