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sven

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Registered: 2005-02-01

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[SOLVED]Gnumeric and problem with non-US characters

I am trying here to get Gnumeric to recognize the UTF-8 or ISO-8859-15 characters, but there even doesn't seem to be any locale option in menus? Googling didn't show up anything spectacular.

I tried this:

LC_ALL=fr_FR gnumeric &

but got an error from command line:

(gnumeric:7559): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

And everything is still in the US format, even how dates are represented.

rdoggsv

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnumeric and problem with non-US characters

is this the same case ?? i had a problem with kde showing up squares maybe my solution can help you up

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … highlight=

try uncommenting your locale and then locale-gen 

rdoggsv

sven

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnumeric and problem with non-US characters

Thanks, rdoggsv - I got the menus in my language in gnumeric and as a bonus - I got the euro sign to work with your advice

But still I don't have characters like ä,ö,õ,ü at gnumeric. I get them nicely at kwrite, konsole, konqueror, openoffice and opera.

This missing chars - thing seems to be Gnome-specific. For example I can't get those chars visible at Gimp, graveman and galculator. But in Abiword the chars are visible in the editor's text editing field but not when for example I try to save a file.

rdoggsv

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnumeric and problem with non-US characters

what i also did , i have no idea if that also helped me , is that i modified my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and installed the fonts on this thread try that to see if that helps

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … ight=fonts

the fist post , shows the fonts that gandalf installed and also his lines on xorg config file.

hope that helps 

sven

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnumeric and problem with non-US characters

no luck still,but thanks for thinking this with me

I'll try the other distros forums now - perhaps some others have had the same kind of problems there, too.

Blaasvis

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnumeric and problem with non-US characters

pfff, well go and generate your locales and all will be fine.

a message about it was posted here:

http://archlinux.org/news.php

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sven

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnumeric and problem with non-US characters

I did it, but it only made console messages and program menus to be in my language. Generating locale did not fix my original problem.

sven

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnumeric and problem with non-US characters

Well,finally after a reinstall, I have those äs and ös in Gnumeric. This was probably somekind of configuration error because I did not use everything from my old /etc backup.