locales settings

[Carsten Aulbert]

Rudy Gevaert wrote:

>>
>> Solving this problem usually involves installing the package
>> language-pack-en
> I think that is an ubuntu specific package
> 
>> and generating the locale by
>> locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> I have found the locale under /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment.
>> Maybe you can change that to "C", but I don't know if that will cure all
>> your problems.
> 
> The strange thing is that I don't have those files.  So somewhere on my
> system it picks en_US.UTF-8.  But where?
> 
> 
Does
grep -r 'en_US.UTF-8' /etc
show anything?

On a freshly installed etch this shows:

/etc/environment:LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
/etc/locale.gen:en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
/etc/gdm/locale.conf:English(USA)       en_US.UTF-8
/etc/default/locale:LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

Weird.

Clueless Carsten