[Xastir] Symbol Set

[James Jolin]

Lee Bengston wrote:
> On 4/1/09, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Dale Seaburg wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I'm having trouble setting the correct symbol for our EOC station.  When I
>>>
>>> select the EOC symbol from the Primary Symbol Table, I get a lower-case
>>> "oh"
>>> in the Symbol box, which is correct.  But the map displays "no sym set".
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>       
>> You select it graphically with the buttons, right?  When you
>> installed Xastir did you do a "make install" as root or "sudo make
>> install"?  That should have installed the symbol table at
>> /usr/local/share/xastir/symbols/ if you installed in the default
>> location from sources.
>>
>> --
>> Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo dot com
>> http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
>>    Lotto:  A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
>> Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
>> The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"
>>     
>
> With some Linux distro's I've seen a symbol issue when the language
> environment is not set to something Xastir likes.  It has been quite a
> while, so I don't remember if what I saw matches the symptoms here,
> but issuing the command export LANG=C prior to launching Xastir
> resolved my issue.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
> Murphy, TX
>
>   
Lee,
Thanks for that info from me, too.  I was having trouble with the house 
symbol.  Your solution worked.  Now seems to me that there was a way to 
put that in permanently.  Does anyone remember how that goes?
Jim