Re: How can I configure my OpenOffice and Xserver to speak the same language?

["Ian D. Leroux" <idleroux%fastmail.fm@localhost>]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:50 +0100, "hans dinsen-hansen"
<hansdinsenhansen%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> I tried  export LC_CTYPE="da_DK.ISO8859" as well as  export 
> LC_CTYPE="da_DK.UTF-
> 8" before I started X, and then OO and Xterm had the same alphabet and
> keyboard.  I can also use all my keyboard.  inclusive ~ and Western
> European letters with diacritics.

I'm glad that fixed the problem for you.

> My problem is now:  It is nice to have the same alphabet in wscons
> (da_DK.ISO8859) as well as X.  But it is also nice to have office
> programs Firefox-mailer, et cetera comparable with "the rest of the
> world (da_DK.UTF-8)

I'm afraid I don't have a good answer to that.  I keep all my data in
UTF-8 (I occasionally need characters outside ISO8859-1), so I've set a
UTF-8 LC_CTYPE in my ~/.profile and I tolerate the inconsistency between
wscons and X.  Since I only use wscons for system maintenance, and
NetBSD system files are all ASCII anyway, this works out ok in practise.
Long-term it would be nice to have a unicode-capable wscons, but I'm not
sure that's possible given the limitations of text-mode graphics.

Regards,

Ian Leroux