problems getting Norwegian characters to work in X

hilde · 01-09-2004, 10:33 AM

problem with Norwegian characters in X, when I start X using bash as shell i can't get norwegian chars in terminals, neither text-based progs like xchat
--rather a drag when chatting with people who use them

tried Zsh, gave me N.chars but still nothin in xchat

this problem only appears in debian it seems

I get the chars in text mode, and also in X if I start in text mode and start X with startx, but NOT if I use gdm or kdm

(I use kdm, and if i choose "console login" and start X with startx the chars work)

suggestions anyone?

hw-tph · 01-09-2004, 11:19 AM

What keyboard language do you have specified in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? You may want to check that it corresponds to an available one in /usr/share/keymaps, probably "no-latin1".

You can also set the LC_CTYPE in /etc/profile and export it to make sure you get norweigan characters in xterms and so on:
/etc/profile:

Code:

LC_CTYPE=no_NO
LANG=C
LANGUAGE=C
export LC_CTYPE LANG LANGUAGE

I think the locale for Norway is no_NO, I'm not sure though. Also run dpkg-reconfigure locales and check the norweigan ones if you haven't already. Generating the locales can take a while. When done, log out and then log in again and I think it should work.

Håkan

hilde · 01-09-2004, 05:24 PM

thanks
--I have got it right in the X config file, will check the other things

there are two norwegian locales, no_NO bokmål nn_NO nynorsk