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esox_ch

Member

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 45

Accents doesn't work, problem with locales

Hello,
I've got a problem with the accents (I use to write in French and German). For instance characters as é à ü è doesn't work in almost every application (Gnome-terminal, skype, jedit,...).

$ locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
fr_CH
fr_CH.iso88591
fr_CH.utf8
POSIX

printenv | egrep '(LC_*|LANG)'
LC_ALL=fr_CH.utf8
LC_COLLATE=C
LANG=fr_CH.utf8

In my rc.conf :
LOCALE="fr_CH.utf8"
KEYMAP="fr_CH-latin1"

$ sudo locale-gen
Generating locales...
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  fr_CH.UTF-8... done
  fr_CH.ISO-8859-1... done
Generation complete.

Does anybody have an Idea ?

Thanks a lot

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Accents doesn't work, problem with locales

What's your  keyboard section in xorg.conf? Maybe you're using the wrong keyboard for X.

gkal

Member

From: Athens-Greece

Registered: 2006-09-09

Posts: 38

Re: Accents doesn't work, problem with locales

Hi

Have you tried setting the LOCALE to fr_CH in your rc.conf ?(without the utf8)

or else I think you should set it to fr_CH.UTF-8 and not fr_CH.UTF8

I used the first thing to solve my problem with accents in Greek but I think the 2nd will work as well.

skale

Member

From: Atlanta, GA

Registered: 2006-08-04

Posts: 146

Re: Accents doesn't work, problem with locales

How do you put accents on letters when you type?