UTF-8 in Hoary

Teófilo Ruiz Suárez teo at debian.org
Tue Nov 16 04:22:23 CST 2004


On vie, oct 29, 2004 at 05:13:18 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Good morning freedom lovers!
> 
> First thing you should do when you upgrade to hoary is enable UTF-8 by
> default -> and only UTF-8! :-)
> 
> 1. sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
> 2. Disable all of the ISO-8859-1 locales in the list
> 3. Enable the appropriate UTF-8 locales for the languages you use
> 4. Choose a UTF-8 locale as the default system locale

Works nice for me at the moment, but you should consider installing "recode"
in a normal installation. 

I got to install it to get my mutt+vim working and I think is an important
tool for an UTF-8 enabled desktop.

Regards,
-- 
teo - http://blog.eltridente.org
 
"Res publica non dominetur"
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