On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: thanx, I ended up fixing the problem using dpkg-reconfigure locales which is basicly the same as sugested(more elegant).
Me. > 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 > > ================================================================= 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]
