On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:00:13PM +0300, Meir Maor wrote: > Hi, > I have recently installed debian-testing on my new laptop > And have tried to type in hebrew in a virtual console(konsole or xterm)
Those are generally called "terminals" or event simply "xterms". The word "console" (and more specifically: "virtual console) refers in linux to what you get from ctrl-alt-<N> > when running xterm I recieve the following message: > "Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged" This error means that your system does not provide locale information for the locales defined in your environment. Thus the fallback to the default (C) locale. > > I have tried the following values for LC_ALL > he_IL,he_IL.utf8,he_IL.UTF-8,he_IL.iso8859-8,en_US.utf8,en_US.UTF-8 Each one separately? Anyway: 1. edit /etc/locales.gen and add the line: he_IL.UTF-8 UTF-8 2. run 'locales-gen' 3. In your environment set: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 Consider also (if you don't want a Hebrew user interface) LC_MESSAGES=C And maybe even: LC_TIME=C make sure LC_ALL and the rest of the LC_* variables are unset. 4. run 'uxterm' instead of 'xterm' I would generally not reconmmend you to work with a non-UTF-8 locale. I can't see any reason to do that. But if that is what you want: 1. edit /etc/locales.gen 2. run locales-gen 3. Same as previous (#), but s/he_IL.UTF-8/he_IL/ 4. set xterm's font to e.g. heb8x13 , or -misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-8 -- 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]