Language : big problems with French !! :o(

[Neil Woolford]

At 15:51 06/12/04, you wrote:

> > I think this is because some parts of gnome is using UTF8 for
> > everything.  Try changing to a UTF8-locale and see what happens. I'm a
> > lot happier with UTF8 and in hoary it will be the default.
> >
> > /Erik
>
>Hi Erik,
>
>What do I have to do exactly to switch to UTF-8 ? Something to modify in
>some file in  /etc or something ? What exactly ?

Switching to UTF-8 helped me over similar (though not as severe) problems with
a mulit-lingual machine.

The switching is done by reconfiguring the locales.

I quote from the thread that gave me the answers.  (Re: .sxw file gets a 
zip-icon, when scand. letters in the name)

 >To switch loacale run
 >       sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
 >pick a UTF-8 encoding for your locale, then login out and in again.

It is a bit of a basic interface, but just work through it as it functions 
well.

Basically you need to deselect the current locale version(s) and substitute
one that uses UTF-8.  Probably best to have one including 'euro' if you want
to do currency stuff easily.

Neil
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