Comment 32 for bug 132357

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Vangelis Tasoulas (cyberang3l) wrote :

Thanks Colin for the tip!
language-pack-el is what I needed to be able to set my /etc/default/locale on el_GR.UTF-8 and do not have any problems!! (At least I have not found a problem yet..)
Now I can write Greek chars everywhere as before!

language-support-el is something that I don`t want...
As I saw it is converting the apt and a few other programs (like firefox/thunderbird) to Greek!
I just want to be able to write Greek but I want my whole system in English ;)

Until Breezy that I am using Kubuntu as my main operating system I had never set my locale to el_GR.UTF-8 but I never had problems so I didn`t had the impulse to search for a solution to problem that I never had.

Anyway I have done a big step forward!!! I have for my first time in my life the el_GR.UTF-8 in my system (As you live you are learning :)

To the nfts problem now...
The ntfs-3g problem still not fixed yet...

cyber@Aurora:/media/Storage$ cat /etc/default/locale
LANG="el_GR.UTF-8"
cyber@Aurora:/media/Storage$ locale -a
C
el_CY.utf8
el_GR.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
POSIX
cyber@Aurora:/media/Storage$ mkdir Ελληνικά
mkdir: cannot create directory `Ελληνικά': Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
cyber@Aurora:/media/Storage$ cd ..
cyber@Aurora:/media$ sudo umount /media/Storage/
[sudo] password for cyber:
cyber@Aurora:/media$ sudo mount /media/Storage/
cyber@Aurora:/media$ cd Storage/
cyber@Aurora:/media/Storage$ mkdir Ελληνικά
cyber@Aurora:/media/Storage$ cd Ελληνικά/
cyber@Aurora:/media/Storage/Ελληνικά$
cyber@Aurora:/media/Storage/Ελληνικά$ ls
cyber@Aurora:/media/Storage/Ελληνικά$ cd ..
cyber@Aurora:/media/Storage$ rm -r Ελληνικά/
cyber@Aurora:/media/Storage$