locale problem

[Marcelo Chiapparini <chiappa@uerj.br>]

Hi,

after upgrading to woody from potato its seems that 
I've lost the locale configuration. After installed 
the language-dev package and running "dpkg-reconfigure locales", 
choosing the "en_US.ISO8859-1" option, I got the message that 
this locale was generated successfully. But the system insits in 
ignoring them. The output from the locale command is still:

LANG=english
LC_CTYPE=
LC_NUMERIC="english"
LC_TIME="english"
LC_COLLATE="english"
LC_MONETARY="english"
LC_MESSAGES="english"
LC_PAPER="english"
LC_NAME="english"
LC_ADDRESS="english"
LC_TELEPHONE="english"
LC_MEASUREMENT="english"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="english"
LC_ALL=

instead of 

LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE="en_US.ISO8859-1"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.ISO8859-1"
LC_TIME="en_US.ISO8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.ISO8859-1"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.ISO8859-1"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.ISO8859-1"
and so on.

I have another machine, with potato this time, 
which has the above en_US.ISO08859-1 locale 
settings. The file /etc/environment in this 
machine has the only entry "LANG=C", so that, 
I think that the file /etc/environment has nothing 
to do with the locate settings. My question is, 
how can I set the locale setting I want in the 
first machine? 

I've followed the previous discussion in this 
list regarding this problem, but no conclusive 
solution was given...

(BTW, the potato to woody upgrade doesn't upgrade 
the locale package.)

Thanks in advance

Marcelo

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Marcelo Chiapparini
DFT-IF/UERJ
chiappa@uerj.br