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Article #3810Re: Example of gettext() program without autoconf
From: Koos Pol
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 08:05
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 08:05
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Charlie Zender wrote: > Thanks for the info. > > > 2. What do "po" and "mo" stand for? just curious PO = portable object (human readable text for input) MO = machine object (compiled PO) > > 3. Currently I am testing my i18n features by invoking, e.g., export > LANG=es at the command line. My spanish translation shows up fine, but > it uses, i think, the default RedHat 7 character set. How do I change > the character set in my xterms to be, say, iso-8859 so that things like > accented characters have a better chance of showing up correctly? > export LANG=es changes all of the LC_* tokens, but apparently the > xterm still uses the ascii character set. I want to know how to tell > a given xterm to really be a spanish/french/... xterm and use the > correct character set and keyboard mapping. Somewhere I have read something like LANG=es.iso8859-1 but I am not sure about the details. Maybe you can find something on this in the man pages. I don't know how the change the keyboard settings automagicly. I probably would use the regular keyboad mapping commands. Cheers, -- Koos Pol - Systems Administrator - Compuware Europe B.V. - Amsterdam T:+31 20 3116122 F:+31 20 3116200 E:koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Check my email address when you hit "Reply".
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