ISO 8859-1 on Ubuntu 6.0.6

[Gary W. Swearingen]

jvpgomes <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> writes:

> I don't like that some things in my system are like... "hidden"... I
> like when I can change what I want in the terminal line... like
> locales...

Well, "hidden" because GNOME and/or KDE are just more complicated than
a lot of people (eg, me) want to bother with the first time they run
into problems with them.  Which is why I ran fvwm2 for so many years
and will probably return to, one of these days.

As for your problem with GNOME, you haven't said how your are sure
that the locale is 8859 in the process that starts GNOME, so I wonder
about that.  (I don't know gdm's config files, so I might start X from
a console and set locale there first.)  Else, GNOME must be picking up
the locale from some GNOME config file and changing the process
environmental locale from that.  Sorry I can't help more.