Locale problem updating 10.3 to 11.1

Trond Endrestøl Trond.Endrestol at fagskolen.gjovik.no
Sun Feb 18 23:33:34 UTC 2018


On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:02+0100, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> After upgrading from 10.3 to 11.1 by building source (as of r329364),
> I experienced some problems that seems to be related to locale.
> 
> Using
> > echo $LANG -- $LC_CTYPE
> no_NO.ISO8859-1 -- no_NO.ISO8859-1

That's nb_NO.ISO8859-1.
nb for norsk bokmål.

> ls emitted question mark for Norwegian characters (æøå), the menu
> and title fonts in fvwm2 displayed unknown to me symbols except for
> certain capital letters and yet other programs like the worker filemanager
> truncated filenames at the first Norwegian letter.
> 
> I had to revert to 10.3 because of this but if anybody has some clues
> what may be the reason for this, I'd appreciate it.

-- 
Trond.


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