Re: Unable to get "AbiWord" run on "RedHat 8.0" - please help ...

From: Carla Schroder (carla@bratgrrl.com)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 15:31:26 EST

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    On Saturday 02 November 2002 11:17, Thomas Rump wrote:
    > Hi everybody,
    > have no way to find out what trouble it is;
    > have tried to download the newest version of "AbiWord" (gtk and gnome),
    > also that version, which came with "RedHat 8.0".
    > For the 'gtk' version i have downloaded from 'abisource' and the one
    > which i had found on the "RedHat" cd (installed for german) i can't
    > write a line so i can follow it, i mean the end of the line goes over,
    > out over the background / the 'white paper' to the right. Also on the
    > top of the "AbiWord" window, where i can change the different subjects,
    > 'File' Edit' and so there appears one rider with the letters: "Should
    > not appear".
    > So if someone has a 'functionally' version of "AbiWord" on "RedHat 8.0"
    > i would like to know, which version it is:-)
    >
    > Cheers (sorry for my english!)
    >
    > Thomas Rump (Germany)

    Hi Thomas,

    It's a locale problem,the default character set for RH8 is Unicode. Abiword is
    not Unicode-aware. Use any version of Abiword, the one that comes with RH8 is
    fine.

    The fix Red Hat gives in the release notes says start Abiword this way:

    $ env LANG=C abiword

    This removes all localization. I don't know if that will work for you, you
    could also set your locale:

    $ env LANG=de_DE abiword

    This may be the better option, to get a complete German character set. I don't
    know for sure, this is all new to me.

    See http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt and
    http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html
    for country and language codes.

    Use the 'locale' command to see what is installed on your system, 'man locale'
    gives all the options.

    Always read the release notes, for RH8 they are on CD1. 

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