Re: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library [SOLVED]
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 13:16, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
> scripsit Paul E Condon:
> > 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.
>
> I experience a similar situation. My LC_ALL/LANG are by default
> en_US.UTF-8. /etc/locale.gen contains (inter alia):
>
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
>
> I have no ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15 English locale.
>
> As I'm not working with any nonlatin writing systems at the moment, I
> haven't worried too much about it.
>
> I recall some "issue" with Gnome using a nonstandard notation for UTF-8;
> is there a workaround that will give me a valid UTF-8 locale which Gnome
> groks?
>
I solved this myself doing:
dpkg-reconfigure locales
and then generated the locale I wanted to use (for me en_US). Now I
don't get the Gdk-Warning any more.
Jamie Strandboge
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