Hoary: UTF-8 conversion. I think I experience minor problems

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:55:11 +0200, Mario Vukelic
<mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 09:14 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >
> > This is not the correct procedure to migrate to UTF-8; the problems
> > you
> > experienced were the result of these actions.
> 
> I forgot to add that I have of course edited /etc/locale.gen and ran
> locale-gen.  Sorry.
> I also tried to use dpkg-reconfigure locales, with the same result.
> 
> Anyway, is the correct procedure documented somewhere? I found nothing
> in the several articles on moving from Sid to Hoary or Warty to Hoary
> that are available in the wiki (except for the info to change mounted
> windows partitions to nls=utf8).
> The Hoary release notes (in yelp) mention that "Hoary uses UTF-8" and
> "includes conversion utilities", but does not specify further actions
> for the user. And the chapter on moving from Warty to Hoary didn't say
> anything about UTF-8 either.
> 
> Would be great to have that documented when Hoary releases.

check the "Changing the locales" in:
 http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/GuideToHoary