Hi Danilo! Thanks for your quick answer...
Actually I fixed the problem a couple of hours before you wrote. I added at the end of /etc/profile export [EMAIL PROTECTED] and now I have everything in Catalan... But... This also changed the default font of my terminal, so just for couriousity I "switched" it off and tried your advice. localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i ca_ES ca_ES.UTF-8 But then I realised that all "special" characters are not recognised any more... I mean accents, cedille, german umlauts etc... I posted the problem in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=286665&sid=231013e9df05cf62dcec319dd6bac756 as you suggested. But, as a matter of fact, I had already resorted to these forums, but since gentoo is becoming a too fashionable distro, you never get an answer, because they get about thousand per hour, I guess... Have any idea of how could I fix this? By the way, it is very comforting to see that people at the other side of the screen have humor sense! cheerio, Pau On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, [utf-8] Danilo Šegan wrote: > Hi Pau, > > Today at 13:05, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: > > > I am sorry that I write to you directly, but I have spent a lot of time on > > this thing and could not find the solution... > > I am trying to set locales and gnome to catalan in my gentoo laptop. > > You should ask similar question on Gentoo forums. They're more likely > to be able to give you correct "Gentoo-way" of doing it. But, read > below. > > > but when looking at locale -a, I don't find the catalan option ... > > nevertheless I did > > > > # mkdir /etc/portage > > # echo "sys-libs/glibc userlocales" >> /etc/portage/package.use > > > > # vi /etc/locales.build > > After this you probably need to do an equivalent of "locale-gen" on > Debian-based systems. You can also do the following manually: > > # localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i ca_ES ca_ES.UTF-8 > # localedef -c -f ISO-8895-1 -i ca_ES ca_ES > ... > > With -f you give out character set to use, and with "-i" you give out > locale definition to use. Final parameter ("ca_ES.UTF-8" and "ca_ES" > above) is the name of the locale you're generating. You may want to > try "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", but I don't know what other parameters you need for > that (check source files in /usr/share/i18n/{charmaps|locales}/, these > files are used for -f and -i parameters). > > But, if there's any Gentoo-specific way of doing it, you probably want > to try that. > > Also, if you set LC_ALL, you need not set anything else except LANG. > You can also set LANGUAGE variable to a colon-delimited list of values > (eg. "ca_ES:ca:es:en" to try Catalan in Spain first, then simply > Catalan, Spanish, and finally English). LANGUAGE should work even if > you don't have any locale installed, so try simply setting > "LANGUAGE=ca_ES:ca" first (but this won't give you Catalan dates, > weekday names, etc.). > > > Am I forgetting something? How can I "catalanise" my gentoo-gnome box? > > Draw funky images with word "Catalan" all over it, and use it as a > background, for GDM themes, record startup sounds with you singing > some Catalan song, etc :) > > Cheers, > Danilo > _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
