On 05/08/2012 08:37 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > On 05/06/2012 08:27 AM, Kevin DeKorte wrote: >> Can you check your locale on the GDM login page? I had this problem >> when I upgraded to F16, in that I could not see utf-8 characters in >> the terminal. Turned out my locale was set to en_US.C or something >> like that when it should have been en_US.UTF8. Changing that in GDM >> solved it. > I can't find any way to check my locale on the GDM login page. Am I missing something? > > Once I've logged in, "set | grep ^L" in a GNOME terminal says LANG is set to > "en_US". The variable GDM_LANG has the same value. > > Strangeness... When I click on my name while logged in and open System Settings, > and then click on Region and Language, the language that's set is "English (United > States) [ISO-8859-1]". If I click on "English" instead, which is a separate > language in the listing, and then close the settings window, log out and log back > in, and open the settings again, it's /again/ set to "English (United States) > [ISO-8859-1]". Is it a bug that the change to "English" doesn't stick? > > Well, I think your problem may be that your LANG is set to en_US and not en_US.UTF-8 as it should be. If I'm not mistaken, the system default is contained in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. Mine contains... [egreshko@meimei sysconfig]$ cat i18n LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
