Bug#644047: locales: /etc/default/locale ignored, locale set to C
Package: locales
Version: 2.13-21
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
This is probably not a fault of package "locales", so please reassign it as you
see appropriate.
* What led up to the situation?
This is a new installation of Wheezy on a Lemote Yeeloong laptop
(mipsel). My kernel is custom-compiled Linux-Libre kernel, but I don't believe
this is related.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
On this system I generated Greek and English UTF-8 locales by running
dpkg-reconfigure on this package. Then I set the default locale to
"en_US.UTF-8" in debconf. I've also tried setting the default locale by adding
an appropriate LANG assignment in /etc/profile and /etc/environment.
* What was the outcome of this action?
The file /etc/default/locale is generated correctly. "locale -a" reports the
desired locales generated. However "locale" reports all locale settings set to
"C". Greek characters display as question marks in virtual terminals and gnome
terminal.
Thank you for your time, I will be glad to provide any further information you
need.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: mipsel (mips64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.4-libre-lemote (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.40
ii libc6 [glibc-2.13-1] 2.13-21
locales recommends no packages.
locales suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: en_US.UTF-8
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: el_GR.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
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