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Xor83

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Registered: 2005-11-17

Posts: 31

Change localisation of a filesystem

Hi there !

  I'm a french user, so, I need my OS support special characters like é,è,ê etc ... So, I red the Forum and found a way to do it.  The only problem is that in console mode, everything is OK, I can see the file name with accents.  But, in KDE or e17, if I use the filemanager or even the xTerm/Konsole, I can't see accents anymore.  As soon as I'm under a desktop environment, all filename with accent are displaying sqare charactere instead of the accent.

  Have you any idea why ???

  What I did from now is add this to my /etc/profile

export LANG="fr_CA"
export LANGUAGE="fr_CA:fr:en:C"
export LC_ALL="fr_CA"

Thanks for your help !

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: Change localisation of a filesystem

I suspect you need to change some language or layout setting in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Just a guess.

Dusty

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Xor83

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Registered: 2005-11-17

Posts: 31

Re: Change localisation of a filesystem

I suspect you need to change some language or layout setting in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Just a guess.

Dusty

Any idea where it could be ?  I know for the Keybord layout ... but for the rest ... really have no idea !

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Change localisation of a filesystem

Make sure you set a font which supports those characters. The default Arch font (at least in KDE), Bitstream Vera, doesn't.

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: Change localisation of a filesystem

Any idea where it could be ?  I know for the Keybord layout ... but for the rest ... really have no idea !

Aucun idée! Je m'excusé.

Peut-etre google t'aide?

Dusty[/search]

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Xor83

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Registered: 2005-11-17

Posts: 31

Re: Change localisation of a filesystem

Make sure you set a font which supports those characters. The default Arch font (at least in KDE), Bitstream Vera, doesn't.

That's what I though too, but I changed the font in Konqueror configuration for Verdana (which support accents), and same problem !  Or maybe I have to do something more ?  And I've also changed the Encoding to ISO-8859-1 ... even -15, but with no success.  So it seem to be something else ... and I really have no idea about it !

Xor83

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Registered: 2005-11-17

Posts: 31

Re: Change localisation of a filesystem

Any idea where it could be ?  I know for the Keybord layout ... but for the rest ... really have no idea !

Aucun idée! Je m'excusé.

Peut-etre google t'aide?

Dusty

Ouais, je vais peut-être faire un peut plus de Google ... mais jusqu'à présent, tout semblait être pas mal dans l'ordre ... c'est très bizarre !  As-tu une configuration semblable ? (Une partition FAT32 avec des fichiers accentués créés en Windows) Si oui, as-tu le même problème ???  Sinon, as-tu fait quelque chose de spécial ?

Merci beaucoup !!!

Xor83

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Registered: 2005-11-17

Posts: 31

Re: Change localisation of a filesystem

Ok ! I found it ! The problem is from GDM ... or maybe more "Gnome" then GDM itself.  I never started with Gnome, so it must have the default parameters, and it's probably the reason why.  I tried with KDM, and I got everything OK.  So I will look at Gnome if I have to install a package or something like the KDE "kde-i18n-fr".

Thanks for your help guys !