ISO 8859-1 on Ubuntu 6.0.6

[Roland Turcan]

<<< 9.6.2006 18:48 - Gary W. Swearingen "garys at opusnet.com" >>>
GWS> No answer here, but a couple of comments:

GWS> You might prefer 8859-15, which is very similar to -1, but has "euro".

GWS> Your problem might be using a font which doesn't support "umlaute".

GWS> As far as I know (not far), Ubuntu (Gnome?) uses the UTF-8 character
GWS> set, which surely has an umlaute character, whether or not a
GWS> particular font supports it.  Of course, your application might use a
GWS> different char set like 8859-1, like any web browser must do.  Sorry,
GWS> I don't know how the mapping between char sets and fonts occurs in the
GWS> OS or your ap nor how they're configured.

So, at first, thank you for your response, but...

Our default setting in start script is following:

...
export LC_ALL=
export LANG=de_DE
...

this setting is enought for Ubuntu 5.10 after we add ISO 8859-1 into
system, because after Ubuntu installation is no ISO 8859-1 installed
just UTF-8 as default.

But I need to know, how we can add ISO-8859-1 into Ubuntu, because our
customers which already installed Ubuntu 6.0.6 have this problem. This
problem is not only visual problem, but all strings which are stored
into string variables lose the umlaute and they are replaced with
question marks and that raises other problems in engine.

Thanks for all responses.

PS: The worst is, that Borland doesn't help us, until we don't use the
certified Linux distributions. Which are too old (SuSE 7.2, RedHat
7.1, ...). This is always magic circle. New Linux distribution raises
a lof of new problems, which we aren't able to solve immediatelly.

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