No latin characters :(

[Mário Gamito]

Hi again,

I did everything just as you told me.
When i type a latin letter like á, etc., i get a greek letter :(

Never mind.
Thank you so much for your time and patince.

Warm Regards,
Mário Gamito

Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Mário Gamito wrote:
> 
>> Thank you for your patience.
>>
>> I did what you told me, but i get:
>>
>> "login_getclass: unknown class 'pt_PT'"
> 
> 
> Did you create a login class 'pt_PT' in login.conf?
> 
>   pt_PT:Portugeese users:\
>         :charset=iso-8859-1:\
>         :lang=pt_PT.ISO8859-1:\
>         :tc=default:
> 
> and did you run
> 
>   # cap_mkdb login.conf
> 
> after that?
> 
> The main reason I like to create a specific class is to keep default as 
> is, but if you're the only one on your system, you could set 'lang' and 
> 'charset' in the default section and leave the class-field in the 
> password file empty.
> 
> The important thing is to set the charset variable.
> 
> True, it is not completly obvious how to get it right, and there is more 
> than one way to do it  which can be confusing. The individual user can 
> override the varables set in login.conf(5) by editing .login_conf.
> 
> If you feel you need to play and test, it might be wise to try and set 
> some environment viriables: MM_CHARSET and LANG are set by the above 
> mentioned.
> 
> Cheers, Erik
> 
> PS: While you are at it, you might want to change password format to 
> blowfish (blf) instead of md5, this is also done in login.conf. But 
> that's another story :-)


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