[H-GEN] UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1

[Troy Piggins]

* Ted Percival <ted at midg3t.net> :
> 
> Troy Piggins wrote:
> > Further to this, I can find no way to change to ISO-8859-1 if I
> > wanted to.  Seems to be a common Dapper problem from my
> > google/ubuntuforums searches so far.
> 
> Try `dpkg-reconfigure locales` (as root) and enable en_AU.ISO-8859-1.
> You should then be able to use it.

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
  en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
Current default timezone: 'Australia/Brisbane'.
Local time is now:      Fri Jun 23 14:20:50 EST 2006.
Universal Time is now:  Fri Jun 23 04:20:50 UTC 2006.
Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it.

> If there's a problem changing it after that, check that it's not being
> forced in /etc/environment.

$ cat /etc/environment
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
LANG="en_AU.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_AU:en"
### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
# Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be preserved
# by debconf.  Instead, make changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
# FOR localeconf" line, and/or after the "### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR
# localeconf" line.
### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf

$ LANG="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or
directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or
directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or
directory
LANG=en_AU.ISO-8859-1
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
LC_CTYPE="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TIME="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
LC_PAPER="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NAME="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ALL=

> As a final method, you could recursively grep /etc or dotfiles in your
> home directory for 'en_AU'.

$ sudo grep -r -e en_AU /etc
grep: /etc/alternatives/vi: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/alternatives/ex: No such file or directory
/etc/environment:LANG="en_AU.UTF-8"
/etc/environment:LANGUAGE="en_AU:en"
/etc/environment.localeconf-backup:LANG="en_AU.UTF-8"
/etc/environment.localeconf-backup:LANGUAGE="en_AU:en"

Seems like there is a package that needs to be installed, but I
can't find it.

$ sudo grep -r -e ISO-8859-1 /etc
Binary file /etc/alternatives/pager matches
grep: /etc/alternatives/vi: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/alternatives/ex: No such file or directory
Binary file /etc/alternatives/www-browser matches
Binary file /etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin matches
/etc/locale.alias:bokmal		nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:bokm�l		nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:catalan		ca_ES.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:danish          da_DK.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:dansk		da_DK.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:deutsch		de_DE.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:dutch		nl_NL.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:eesti		et_EE.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:estonian	et_EE.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:finnish         fi_FI.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:fran�ais	fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:french		fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:galego		gl_ES.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:galician	gl_ES.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:german		de_DE.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:icelandic       is_IS.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:italian         it_IT.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:lithuanian      lt_LT.ISO-8859-13
/etc/locale.alias:no_NO		nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:no_NO.ISO-8859-1 nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:norwegian       nb_NO.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:nynorsk		nn_NO.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:portuguese      pt_PT.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:spanish         es_ES.ISO-8859-1
/etc/locale.alias:swedish         sv_SE.ISO-8859-1
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf:#AddDefaultCharset	ISO-8859-1
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf:AddCharset ISO-8859-1  .iso8859-1  .latin1
/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini:;mssql.charset = "ISO-8859-1"
/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini:;exif.encode_unicode = ISO-8859-15

I'm lost.

See the /etc/locale.alias:francais above?  Where the 'c' is in
francais I see a box instead of the character (I know it's not
really a 'c' but can't remember what it's called).

-- 
Troy Piggins
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