Bug#166979: Locales simply wont work
Is this bug still alive?
I think 2.3.1-8 fixes your problem. Would you tell me it's ok or not?
Regards,
-- gotom
At Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:53:42 -0300,
Juan Linietsky wrote:
> 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.
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