<em><a href="Non-Sumou.html">Other Nokia N900 GNU mobile phone tips</a></em></p>

Locales support is broken on the Nokia N900. If you install <strong>locales</strong> from the repositories, your phone will be messed up after reboot, whereby all widgets etc. will have wgt_osso_... names shown instead of them, thus you will not see the clock for instance, just some weird long wgt_... name.</p>

To use locales, with for instance UTF-8 support on the N900:</p> <ul> <li>Backup old locales dirs. <strong>This step is very important as without these the N900 interface will be messed up.</strong> <table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"><font color="#FFFF00"><b># mv /usr/lib/locale /usr/lib/locale.bak<br /> # mv /usr/share/locale /usr/share/locale.bak</b></td></tr></table></li> <li>Install locales: <table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"><font color="#FFFF00"><b># apt-get install locales</b></td></tr></table></li> <li>Edit /etc/locale.gen with locales you want to generate.</li> <li>Generate the locales: <table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"><font color="#FFFF00"><b># locale-gen</b></td></tr></table></li> <li>Backup the newly generated locale dirs: <table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"><font color="#FFFF00"><b># mv /usr/lib/locale /usr/lib/locale.new<br /> # mv /usr/share/locale /usr/share/locale.new</b></td></tr></table></li> <li>Restore the old locale dirs: <table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"><font color="#FFFF00"><b># cp -r /usr/lib/locale.bak /usr/lib/locale<br /> # cp -r /usr/share/locale.bak /usr/share/locale</b></td></tr></table></li> <li>Re</li> </ul>

Now your system is not messed up.</p>

After reboot: <table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"><font color="#FFFF00"><b># mount -o bind /usr/lib/locale.new /usr/lib/locale</b></td></tr></table></p>

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