Joao Palhoto Matos wrote: > A piece of advice: > > Do printenv in a terminal and let people know if > > GDM_LANG > > is set and to what value. > > This depends on your choice in the gdm login screen for language. > > Hopefully your trouble is just a choice of the C locale for language > (or most likely you never chose one) or never installed appropriate > locale support. > > I cannot reproduce your problem. I have > GDM_LANG=pt_PT.ISO-8859-1 > > but I am an ultra conservative about using ISO-8859-1 which makes life > with pine, latex and php simpler. > > Duplicating a file in nautilus I got a filename with "cópia" which Vi > improved happily opened. > > On the face of it your problem is totally unrelated to gnome. > It seems that you are right about me never choosing a gdm locale (I don't recall ever having done this since my fresh install of my debian system). When I do a 'printenv | grep -i gdm' I get: jose@sweety:~$ printenv | grep -i gdm GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION=local GDMSESSION=default so I don't have a GDM_LANG variable defined. Do you think that if this variable is set at login (say to "C") it would fix my problem? TIA. -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
