Re: Example of gettext() program without autoconf

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From: Sven Mascheck
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 03:52

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Charlie Zender <zender@uci.edu> wrote:

 > 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.

LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES are of main interest for you
but they _might_ need a slightly different syntax (es vs es_ES).

Inspect your fonts with xfd(1) and call xterm(1) with an appropriate one.
Find out about the location of your fonts via the fontpath, xset(1).

I once collected facts and hints for solving problems about the locale:
    <URL:http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_smasch/Locale/>
(not struggling for completeness but just for inspiration)

f'up
Sven

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