On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 04:52:45PM +0100, Bj?rn K?nig wrote: > I am a bit confused. Neither de_DE.ISO-8859-1 nor > de_DE.ISO8859-1 work properly in all cases. > > > setenv LANG de_DE.ISO8859-1 > > echo abcdef uvwxyz | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' > ABCDEF ?WXY?]
For better or worse, this is not the correct way to perform case conversion in non-ASCII locales on FreeBSD 5 and later. See the COMPATIBILITY section of the tr(1) manpage for more information. > > > setenv LANG de_DE.ISO-8859-1 > > echo abcdef uvwxyz | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' > ABCDEF UVWXYZ > > perl > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > [lot of indignation about locale settings] FreeBSD uses the name de_DE.ISO8859-1 instead of de_DE.ISO-8859-1. Most base system utilities don't complain if LANG or the related LC_* variables are invalid. > > I am suspicious that de_DE.UTF-8 would work correct > with most software. Is it the only solution to don't > use localization currently at all or should it be my > ambition to fix this? What should be the correct > value? I would prefer the notation "ISO-8859-1", but > even the almighty perl does not. Setting LANG to de_DE.ISO8859-1 should work. The alternative is UTF-8, which is understood by most text-processing utilities in the base system (ls, wc, grep, sed, ...). However, at this stage neither sh nor vi work correctly with UTF-8, so you would need to replace these with (for example) bash and vim. Tim _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
