locales settings

[Rudy Gevaert]

Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> 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?

thrace:~# grep -r 'en_US.UTF-8' /etc
thrace:~#

nothing found...

> 
> 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.

yes in deed

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