[gcmd-dev] How to get complete UTF-8 localization ....?

[Micha]

| Looks like gome-desktop works only with LANG=xy_XY.UTF-8...

With that LANG setting i find that both nautilus and gcmd handle german 
umlauts (and € =euro) in filenames OK, but gtk-1 apps like sylpheed can't 
interpret them, neither can xterminals nor textconsole. Also not mc. I can 
*write* ö (oe) and ü (ue, -> how do they appear to you?) however, in a message 
in sylpheed, or a textfile in mcedit or nedit too. 
Apparently gtk-1 and textconsole (and also sterminals) can not handle UTF-8,
and they fall back to ISO-8859-15 interpretation somehow.

The keymaps, fonts, and locales are all available, of course, for example i 
set german keyboard layout with no dead keys, compiled ISO-8859-1 and -15 
and -UTF-8 locales ( -> /etc/locale.gen ) and installed additional german 
console 
fonts via 'fonty' package. I ran any available configuring tool.

However, if i try to make it easy, and set address@hidden (which works 
ok for textconsole and for gtk-1) then gnome-session rejects it as unknown, 
and falls back to failsafe 'C' (american, no umlauts).

So. How on earth do they expect advanced users to like linux?!
I should give SuSe and other distros a try, however, before complaining.
Possibly it's debians fault, or i just forgot to install something important
(but then, how could they let me get away with that, then. I installed
all recommended packages for console, and localization, i could find
by searching the package list by keywords - even a special 'german textconsole'
package which apparently does work with ISO-8859-15.)








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