Re: locale not set properly

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 05:14:53PM +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote:

> Show the details of your problem.
> (Run `locale-gen', `cat /etc/locale.gen', and `locale')

Thanks for your reply. The output is below.  

After I saw this output, I went back and checked my /etc/environment
again and discovered mistakes on the last two lines where I did not
have " " and there were spaces on both sides of the =

Correcting that (or removing /etc/environment), made the problem going
away.

This is what was in my /etc/environment after the correction:

LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME=it_IT.ISO-8859-1
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LANGUAGE="en_ZA"
LC_ALL="POSIX"

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11:10:08 root@bywoner:/etc/webmin# locale-gen
Generating locales...
  af_ZA.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_ZA.ISO-8859-1... done
Generation complete.

11:43:46 root@bywoner:/etc/webmin# cat /etc/locale.gen
# This file lists locales that you wish to have built. You can find a
list
# of valid supported locales at
/usr/share/doc/locales/SUPPORTED.gz. Other
# combinations are possible, but may not be well tested. If you change
# this file, you need to rerun locale-gen.

af_ZA ISO-8859-1
en_ZA ISO-8859-1

11:43:53 root@bywoner:/etc/webmin# locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=en_ZA
LC_NUMERIC=POSIX
LC_TIME=it_IT.ISO-8859-1
LC_COLLATE=POSIX
LC_MONETARY=POSIX
LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

This was the type of error I got earlier:

11:44:58 js@bywoner:/etc/webmin$ man locale
(null): can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
Reformatting locale(1), please wait...
LOCALE(1)                Debian GNU/Linux               LOCALE(1)

NAME
       locale - Get locale-specific information.

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Thanks again.  Your request for detail helped me to get a longstanding
problem sorted out.  

Johann
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