From: Meir Maor (meir_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Fri 25 Jun 2004 - 01:51:42 IDT
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
>
>
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