Re: locale problem

[Simon Hepburn <sth@blueyonder.co.uk>]

apt-get install localeconf

Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

> 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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Simon Hepburn.