HOWTO: Using UTF-8 on Gentoo (edited)

foosh · Apprentice Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Posts: 231 Location: STL

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noathustra · Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:37 am Post subject:

This is a great Howto and discussion. Well done. Perhaps someone here can help with my Gecko browser locale difficulties. When I use Firefox/Mozilla/Epiphany on certain sites, the browser segfaults. I ran strace on it and found that just before it crashed there were problems finding the file:
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo

I am using en_US.utf for LC_ALL and ja_JP.utf for LC_CTYPE.

Any ideas how to generate the libc.mo file?

Phase_ · n00b Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 37 Location: Sweden

Hey,

I'm having some trouble getting UTF-8 to work properly with GTKmm.
UTF-8 support is there, as can be seen through Glib::get_charset ().
But whenever I try to run locale_to_utf8 () with a UTF-8 formatted string, the app. just dies with the error "Aborted".

I have tried editing added /etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf8 and ~/.gtkrc, nothing seems to work.
Anyone got a clue?

SaFrOuT · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 256 Location: Egypt

i don't knwo if i am that dumb but after reading this article i can't figure out how to change my encoding fro Posix to UTF8

i need to read and write arabic doc sometimes sice i am an arabic user

can u help me in an easier language plz from those outputs

anderlin · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:42 am Post subject:

I want to convert all my filenames to UTF-8, and want to use convmv. How do I find out what encoding to encode from?

>Octoploid< · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 57

bmichaelsen · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 4:08 am Post subject:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8

MaxDamage · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject:

When burning a CD with UTF8 filenames, the filenames are wrongly displayed when accessing the CD from a windows machine.

Any way of forcing the program to burn the CD using iso8859-15?
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tomga · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 68

bi3l · Apprentice Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 268 Location: France

You can try '-input-charset utf8' as an mkisofs option.

AFCommando · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 59

Hi all,

I can't say how much this thread has helped me with using UTF-8. This thread is awesome

Everything is running fine for me except for one thing, and thats viewing japanese filenames over samba. If I ssh into my fileserver and do ls, I see it just fine but if I ls the share I won't see it correctly. My temporary fix that I find strange is having

unix charset = CP850

in my smb.conf for some reason that makes things work. When I mount the share on my desktop I don't need any options for smbmount. Even if i tried iocharset=utf8,codepage=cp850 it doesn't work unless i added that unix charset to my smb.conf. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? Also if I don't have unix charset = CP850, my win2k box displays the filenames correctly but if that option is there, it doesn't.

Both my desktop and my fileserver have NLS UTF-8 in the kernel and i set SMBFS NLS to UTF-8 also.

Any help would be appreciated.

lordello · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:02 am Post subject: unicode use flag

I'm sorry to post in this old topic, but i want to keep this information together for later research.
When i use UTF-8 locale, i need to set the unicode use flag?
Have any other flag to set?
I need to recompile programs other than that have unicode flag?
I know that this question can be stupid, but it's not clear to me.
Thanks.

supermihi · Guru Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 348

One question: is the @euro modifier needed for UTF8 locales?
As UTF-8 should be a superset of iso8859-15, could it be that it's not needed? I'm asking because I found that there was no entry for de_DE.UTF-8@euro in /usr/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias, so I still got the Xlib errors.
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carpman · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:30 pm Post subject:

Hello so how would i go about creating

devil_ua · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject:

http://saber.gentoo.org.ua/~devil/unicode-guide.html
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Cintra · Advocate Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 2111 Location: Norway

ref page 1 of this thread

bludger · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 389

This is an annoying "feature" of xlib. en_DK does not seem to be supported in xlib. I guess the only workaround is to map en_DK to some supported locale in the locale.dir file. This is clearly sub optimal as you probably lose the features of en_DK that you wanted in the first place.

Does anyone know of a way to edit xlib locales? It must be somewhere in the code. The current locale system probably works ok for en_US users or en_GB, but for the large number of international english speaking expats, it is a pain in the arse. What is needed is a simple way of cusomising the locales for the system and for xlib, so that you can have a mix of English language and european currency and european date format (with english words). It is possible to do this for the base system, but no way that I know of of customising the xlib locales.

Does anyone know a way of doing this?