ISO 8859-1 on Ubuntu 6.0.6

[jvpgomes]

Hi!



I have the same problem. And, for what I read in many foruns, it's a
general problem.



I already lost too many time with this and I couldn't solved the
problem.

I read many many many things...



It wasn't difficult to generate locales... if you look in the foruns
you can find many different sollutions. 

You can see here:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=137306&highlight=locales

I think that you can also do, for example, this:

joao at pc-linux:~$ sudo locale-gen pt_PT pt_PT.UTF-8 en_GB en_GB.UTF-8

and it will generate pt_PT.ISO-8859-1 and en_GB.ISO-8859-1



Any way, my system already supports ISO-8859-1



joao at pc-linux:~$ locale

LANG=pt_PT.ISO-8859-1

LANGUAGE=pt_PT.ISO-8859-1

LC_CTYPE="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

LC_NUMERIC="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

LC_TIME="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

LC_COLLATE="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

LC_MONETARY="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

LC_MESSAGES="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

LC_PAPER="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

LC_NAME="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

LC_ADDRESS="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

LC_TELEPHONE="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

LC_MEASUREMENT="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

LC_IDENTIFICATION="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

LC_ALL=pt_PT.ISO-8859-1

joao at pc-linux:~$



I normally add this lines:



export LC_ALL="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

export LANG="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"

export LANGUAGE="pt_PT.ISO-8859-1"



to the .bashrc file. 



Everything is normal.



But I have one problem.

It seems that GNOME uses only UTF-8. Every time I start a program using
the GNOME menu, that program will have the UTF-8 codification by
default. 



If I use GNOME console to start the program, that program will run
using ISO-8859-1 codification.



I don't understand why GNOME still uses UTF-8 even if the locales are
set to ISO-8859-1.



I don't know how to changed it...



Anyone has a solution?



It's a shame because Ubuntu is my favourite distro, but since I upgrade
to Dapper, I've been experiencing some problems... locales, printer, and
some other small questions... now this is the only problem that I could
solved yet...



Regards


-- 
jvpgomes