Bug 39644
| Summary: | problems with gnome-terminal | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Joachim Backes <joachim.backes> |
| Component: | gnome-core | Assignee: | Havoc Pennington <hp> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | ylai |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-05-14 13:51:26 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Joachim Backes
2001-05-08 13:38:51 UTC
This behavior is related to (already reported) lack of internationalized menus
in GNOME. It seems that without defining an LC_ALL environmental variable,
GNOME refuses to use the locale set by LANG. This behavior is against the rules
set in XPG4 and POSIX.2 which defines the LANG to be the choice if LC_ALL is not
defined. Therefore, the scripts /etc/profile.d/lang.sh (and .csh) adhere
correctly to the standard by undefining the LC_ALL variable if it is identical
to LANG.
There are many methods to circumvent the current situation:
1. Explicitly select "Deutsch" in the GDM menu (solves only the problem under X
environemnt). In this case GDM set the LC_ALL variable.
_OR_
2. Add a line defining LC_ALL="de_DE" after the line with LANG="de_DE", then
edit the files /etc/profile.d/lang.sh by commenting out lines as follow (and
similarly with lang.csh):
if [ -n "$LC_ALL" ]; then
# if [ "$LC_ALL" != "$LANG" ]; then
export LC_ALL
# else
# unset LC_ALL
# fi
else
This is not a recommended way to solve the problem, because it is important to
make GNOME compliant to XPG4 and POSIX.2. It is possible is that Ximian's GNOME
1.4 has already solve this problems.
Re: umlauts, if you go into gnome-terminal preferences and turn off the "use multibyte support" setting then it should work. Reopen the bug is not. Re: LANG/LC_ALL, I believe this is handled entirely by the C library and gettext(), GNOME isn't doing anything special. Anyway, you said it's being tracked in another reported bug so I won't leave this bug open for that. I am not sure whether the C library is really the one to blame. Today, I have installed the Ximian GNOME 1.4 (which does not update the C library). Now, even without any LC_xxx set, the gnome-terminal is working properly. Unfortunately, I am now unable to reproduce the problem (the terminal of GNOME 1.4 also does not has a such option), may be backes.de should try this again. Ximian "fixes" the problem with umlauts by not having Japanese multibyte support. Red Hat RPMs have a preference option; turn off "use multibyte" to get the Ximian behavior. Red Hat is in Japanese mode by default. |