Tcsh and localization

Karu · 09-16-2007, 04:28 AM

Newbie question.
I have used zsh and bash shells and my language specific
parameters are OK.
form /etc/profile.d/lang.sh:

Code:

export LANG=et_EE.utf8

But when I use tcsh it defaults to english

etc/profile.d/lang.csh:

Code:

setenv LANG et_EE.utf8

Is there some other/additional palaces where to
set localization ? Reconfigure tcsh?

JMJ_coder · 09-16-2007, 11:46 AM

Hello,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karu

Newbie question.
I have used zsh and bash shells and my language specific
parameters are OK.
form /etc/profile.d/lang.sh:

Code:

export LANG=et_EE.utf8

But when I use tcsh it defaults to english

etc/profile.d/lang.csh:

Code:

setenv LANG et_EE.utf8

Is there some other/additional palaces where to
set localization ? Reconfigure tcsh?

You could try putting this in one of these files:

.cshrc or .tcshrc - for only you as a user

/etc/cshrc /etc/tcshrc /etc/csh.login - to make this change global for all users

The name of the exact file(s) depends on your particular system.

I hope this helps.

Karu · 09-16-2007, 12:29 PM

Thanks for suggesting.
It did not work.

Actually /etc/profile.d/lang.csh gets read and my LANG variable gets set:

Code:

> echo $LANG
et_EE.utf8

but it has no effect.

Then I thougt that tcsh is compiled without support for national languages,
but

Code:

> tcsh --version
tcsh 6.15.00 (Astron) 2007-03-03 (i486-intel-linux) options wide,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,filec

As I undersand "nls" means Native Language System, thus
I should expect supporting LANG variable.

This tcsh and localization question in not very important for me, as
I turned to use zsh.
But otherwise I feel challenged ,because
every other aspect of controlling my fresh Slackware install
has succeeded well !

JMJ_coder · 09-17-2007, 07:02 PM

Hello,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karu

Thanks for suggesting.
It did not work.

Actually /etc/profile.d/lang.csh gets read and my LANG variable gets set:

Code:

> echo $LANG
et_EE.utf8

but it has no effect.

Then I thougt that tcsh is compiled without support for national languages,
but

Code:

> tcsh --version
tcsh 6.15.00 (Astron) 2007-03-03 (i486-intel-linux) options wide,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,filec

As I undersand "nls" means Native Language System, thus
I should expect supporting LANG variable.

This tcsh and localization question in not very important for me, as
I turned to use zsh.
But otherwise I feel challenged ,because
every other aspect of controlling my fresh Slackware install
has succeeded well !

From what I understand, you are missing an option. Besides the nls, TCSH also requires the option 8b - which allows for usage of 8bit non-ASCII characters. A solution for this requires a recompilation of TCSH.

Why the current binary doesn't include this option escapes me.

Karu · 09-18-2007, 12:13 AM

Thank you very much !
This explains things up !
I thougt it was something like that, but it was hard for newbie to analyze
that.