On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:04:54 +0100 Franz Hoffmann <frh@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am having trouble with the German installation of Fedora Core. I belive > this is because Fedora uses LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 as standard (while RH7.x used > LANG=de_DE@euro). > > But I don't really know much about this, so let me tell you the symptoms: > > - GnuCash does not display umlauts (äöüß) > - Suns Java does not print umlauts. > - Gimp shows empty "tip of the day" > - Sylpheed does not display umlauts and crashes, wehn you click on a folder > that has an umlaut in its name > > And I'm sure I'll find more if I start looking. > > I filed a similar bug for XEmacs for test 3, which got fixed, and now XEmacs > works almost as good as it did in RH7.3. > > I tried to go back to LANG=de_DE@euro, but that didn't work either: XEmacs > gues back to english, vi won't display umlauts any more, and Sylpheed will > only work with LANG=de_DE. > > What's going on here? same for me with fr_FR.UTF8 I modify /etc/sysconfig/i18n with LANG="fr_FR" everything works perfectly for me now (I remember I do the same with RH8) christophe
