Bug#166979: Locales simply wont work
Subject: locales: Locales simply wont work
Package: locales
Version: 2.3.1-3
Severity: normal
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux server 2.4.20-pre9 #5 Thu Oct 17 23:30:20 ART 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (ignored: LC_ALL set)
Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii debconf 1.2.12 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 [glibc-2.3.1-3] 2.3.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: en_US
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_US ISO-8859-1, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, es_AR ISO-8859-1, es_ES ISO-8859-1, es_ES@euro ISO-8859-15, ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP, ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8
server:~# cat /etc/locale.gen
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
es_AR ISO-8859-1
es_ES ISO-8859-1
es_ES@euro ISO-8859-15
ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP
ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8
Then i run
server:~# locale-gen
Generating locales...
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
es_AR.ISO-8859-1... done
es_ES.ISO-8859-1... done
es_ES.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
ja_JP.EUC-JP... done
ja_JP.UTF-8... done
And finally...
server:~# locale -a
C
POSIX
en_US
The locales I configured wont show?
The same happens using "dpkg-reconfigure locales" too.
here's another test:
server:~# export LC_ALL=en_US
server:~# rm
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.
now
server:~# export LC_ALL=es_ES
server:~# rm
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.
It wont get translated.. and look:
server:~# ls /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo
Those are installed and all.
Am I doing anything wrong?
Juan Linietsky
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