From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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Cc: <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Subject: Re: gettext port
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:16:36 +0200
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> > If I add the following lines to djgpp.env
> > 
> > +LANG=de
> > +LANGUAGE=de,en
> > 
> > then I _do_ get German text (e.g., from `sed --version'), but the
> > umlauted and ess-tzett chars are incorrectly mapped on my screen
> > under CP437.  These chars _are_ available in the upper half of CP437,
> > however.
> 
> Doesn't LANGUAGE=de mean codepage 850 rather than 437?
> 
> I seem to vaguely recall something about you being able to tell
> libiconv which encoding you need, something like LANGUAGE=de.cp437 or
> some such.  Does it work?

It should - the full specification for a language/locale is

  aa_BB.cccc

where aa is the ISO language code, BB is the ISO country code and cccc
is the codepage.  aa can also be suffixed with "@dd", I believe, to
indicate a dialect (hence the no AT nyorsk messages in some packages).

I suppose the easiest would be to edit locale.alias and set LANG to
one of those alias (e.g. the default locale alias has 'german' and
'deutsch' mapped to de_DE.ISO-8859-1.  Change that to de_DE.CP437 and
set LANG to 'german' and you should get correct messages.