On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:32:31AM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 21:16, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > > Install locales-he as well as kde-i18n-he > > > > now set LC_CTYPE in /etc/sysconfig/i18n to 'IL_he.ISO-8859-8' > > > > should work now > > > > > > Thanks! That worked great. Will it have any other effect on my system? > > > > Seems it does. Perl gives me two warnings while Subversion simply refuses > > to run because it cannot recognize the locale. Is there a better > > solution? What process needs to be aware of this particular locale > > setting. > > That is to be expected. some programs are not as locale friendly as they like > to think themselves to be - mostly they simply check the locale against a > list of known values and complain horribly if something is a bit outsize > known parameters.
I don't know about subversion, but perl actually checks the locale (with setlocale(3) ?)you have set and complains if it doesn't work. This is great for checking your locales setting. > > One solution might be to return sysconfig/i18n to its former settings (and as > Tzafrir noted- en_GB is usually better then en_US, as the brits are a bit > less dumb then the yankies and do have metric measurements like normal > people), and then put some script into /etc/X11/xinit.d that will set the > appropriate LC_CTYPE just for the X session. /etc/X11/xinitrc.d right? Just remember that those scripts are not used if you have your own $HOME/.xinitrc . Use $HOME/.Xclients (or RH and Mandrake, at least) > On second thought, that would fuck up perl running inside a konsole. oh well. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
