Re: compose key

From: Richard L. Hamilton (Richard.L.Hamilton_at_mindwarp.smart.net)
Date: 06/19/05 

Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 08:48:00 -0000

In article <d915jk$4qv$1@wsc10.lrz-muenchen.de>,
        Thomas Maier-Komor <maierkom@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:
[...]
> Replying to my own post - I hope it might help somebody else
> in the future...
>
> OK I digged deeeeep into it and searched the whole 'net. If locale
> "C" is selected the compose key will not work as expected. This
> documented somewhere in the CDE or release docs.
>
> Workaround: set default locale to a ISO8859-1 locale in
> /etc/dt/config/Xconfig as documented in dtlogin. This also causes
> the ugly rectangle to disappear under each window. BTW: the default
> locale of the system seems to be set in /etc/TIMEZONE by setting

Well... /etc/default/init actually (/etc/TIMEZONE is a symlink to it
for compatibility, as described in comments in the file).

> something like this:
> LC_COLLATE=de_DE.ISO8859-1
> LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-1
> LC_MESSAGES=de.ISO8859-1
> LC_MONETARY=de_DE.ISO8859-1
> LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.ISO8859-1
> LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO8859-1

Realize that will affect sorting sequences (including by ls), and also
I'm not sure how well old Open Look programs will like that. 

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