Re: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library [SOLVED]

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com>]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:10:15PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > 
> > But when I do this I get the following message
> > prior to the opening of galeon:
> > 
> > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> > 
> 
> in a shell run this:
> 
> echo $LC_ALL
> echo $LANG
> 
> if the value is en_US (as I expect it is) then you need to edit /etc/locale.gen.
> 
> Here is my file:
> 
> en_US ISO-8859-1
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> 
> There is a comment at that top of the file explaining what it is, where to get
> info and what to do when you are done editing.
> 

The comment gives an option of using dpkg-reconfigure locales, which I
exercised. It uses a gui and was totally painless. Your listing of
your file was a help. Without it I would have been at a loss. There
are so many choises. 

Thanks.


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Paul E Condon           
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