Language and keyboard problems

[Frederik Dannemare]

On Monday 11 April 2005 04:22, Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've just installed Kubuntu 5.04 on an iMac Rev. A and had very few
> problems.  Screen resolution was something awkward, but I solved the
> problem with runing
>
> 	dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.
>
> I was also hoping to solve another problem - the keyboard layout -
> but I'm still unable to write characters such as @, {, [, ], }.  BTW,
> my keyboard has a portuguese layout.  Any ideas how to solve this
> problem?

With respect to KDE apps, you should be able to simply select your 
keyboard layout in kcontrol -> regional & accessibility -> keyboard layout

> Finally, during installation I choose english as the default
> language. How do I change english to another language (I want
> portuguese) without having to reinstall everything?

"sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales" and choose the locales 
which you want to generate

This should work as well, I think (using {en_US,da_DK}.ISO-8859-15 in 
this example):

echo -e "da_DK.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15\nen_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15" >/etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
cat <<EOF >/etc/environment
LANG="da_DK.ISO-8859-15"
LC_CTYPE="da_DK.ISO-8859-15"
LC_NUMERIC="da_DK.ISO-8859-15"
LC_TIME="da_DK.ISO-8859-15"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="da_DK.ISO-8859-15"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
LC_PAPER="da_DK.ISO-8859-15"
LC_NAME="da_DK.ISO-8859-15"
LC_ADDRESS="da_DK.ISO-8859-15"
LC_TELEPHONE="da_DK.ISO-8859-15"
LC_MEASUREMENT="da_DK.ISO-8859-15"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="da_DK.ISO-8859-15"
EOF

Re-login...

This example will give you Danish everywhere, except in 
the shell (LC_MESSAGES). Also, LC_LOCCATE set to POSIX does 
correct (correct, in my book) listing of files.

Best regards,
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