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Re: [tlug] Howto on Gentoo i18n



On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:16:06 +0200
David Oftedal <david@example.com> wrote:

> >Why? It really is useful.  I'm really a bit curious as to which apps
> >don't respect LC_CTYPE, I'm not doubting it but would be curious to
> >know since I have always used LC_CTYPE exclusively.  Needless to say
> >there is definite value to having Japanese input with English menus.

> Now that you mention it, I've never made a list. I think version 1 of 
> gjiten used LANGUAGE instead of LC_CTYPE.
It was setting LC_ALL to ja_JP if it was different to avoid mojibake, it
didn't touch LANGUAGE.

> Also, The Gimp will only use 
> Japanese fonts if LC_ALL is set to ja_JP,

Both of these applications have newer versions for GTK2/GNOME2 that work
fine with LC_ALL set to something else. 

-- 
B0Ti.


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