Progress...
Installed new libc6 (version 2.3.2.ds1-13)... o.k.
Installed matching locales (ver. 2.3.2.ds1-13) and
then configured for support of en_US ISO-8859-1
AND en_US.UTF-8.
Tried "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8" (and ..-ISO-8859-1)
prior to "xscanimage microtek2:/dev/sg1"
No change in displayed text. No informative or
diagnostic messages. However, exporting other LANG
options causes xscanimage to complain "Gtk-warning:
Locale not supported by C library" so I'm thinking
that it is not a locale problem.
What about environment variables LC_CTYPE and
LC_MESSAGES? Are defaults o.k. there?
Note to J.Blache --
"xfonts-*-transcoded" is not in my system; are other
fonts known to work? Or, point me to an "xfonts"
source.
...Gene...
Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
> It may also help if you run this command before you start xscanimage:
> export LANG=en_US.iso-8859-1
> You need to run this in the same terminal in which you also start
> xscanimage.
>
> Karl Heinz
>
> On Jul 3, 2004, at 5:01 AM, Julien BLACHE wrote:
>
>> Gene Stemple <gen...@vtc.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> bad news is that the dialog window opened by xscanimage
>>> is (mostly) unreadable. The button labels are all there but
>>> most of the characters are "mangled" so that I have to guess
>>> what they say from the few characters, and context, that are
>>> right.
>>
>>
>> GTK 2.0 uses UTF8 all over the place; try installing some more fonts
>> (specifically, xfonts-*-transcoded).
>>
>> What locale are you using, if any ?
>>
>> JB.
>>
>> --
>> Julien BLACHE <http://www.jblache.org>
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