2 If I18N support does not work for you, check these:
4 - the LANG environment variable is set to your locale, and
5 the locale is supported by your OS's locale or X's locale
6 emulation. you can display all supported locales by
7 executing "locale -a" command if it available. and you
8 can check if your locale is supported by X's locale emulation.
9 See "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias"
11 - Check if you're using appropriate fonts for the locale you
12 chose. If you're using a font set that has a different
13 encoding than the one used by Xlib or libc, bad things can
14 happen. Try specifically putting the encoding in the LANG
15 variable, like ru_RU.KOI8-R. Again, see
16 "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias"
18 - if your OS doesn't support any locale or if your OS doesn't
19 support a locale for your language, you can use X Window System's
20 locale emulation feature instead of OS's locale. To use this
21 feature, add this option to the configure, "--with-x-locale".
22 if your OS is commercial one, such as Solaris,IRIX,AIX,...,
23 you perhaps don't have to use X's locale emulation.
24 But if your OS is Linux or NetBSD or .. , it's possible
25 your locale is not supported so far. then use "--with-x-locale".
27 Note: to use X's locale emulation, your Xlib has to be
28 compiled so that the locale emulation is enabled.
29 Linux RedHat5.0's default Xlib is not compiled
30 like that. (RH4.x are ok). Recompiled Xlib for
31 RH5.0 where you can use locale emulation is available
33 ftp://ftp.linux.or.jp/pub/RPM/glibc
35 - if you'd like to display multibyte characters, set the
36 MultiByteText option to YES in ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker
37 and ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMGLOBAL
39 - the fonts you're using support your locale. if your font
40 setting on $HOME/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker is like..
42 WindowTitleFont = "-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
43 MenuTitleFont = "-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
44 ......................................................
46 then you can't display non iso8859-x charcters by helvetica.
47 so quick way to display various languages' font is to change
48 all the font settings into:
50 "-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
52 and also you need to change font settings in style files in
53 the "$HOME/Library/WindowMaker/Style" directory.
55 - the LC_CTYPE environment variable is unset or it has the correct
56 value. If you don't know what is the correct value, unset it.