Andy Hurt wrote:
Sorry for the solitary reply, Emma . . . . Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:(I'm ruthlessly snipping here)From what I can tell, the default system environment is set in /etc/environment (LANG=C, etc.).yes the default is C, not en_US as was mentioned earlier....So I changed the system environment back to C. As root, '# locale' gives me all "=C", but, for my basic user account, '$ locale' still gives me "LC_*=en_US.UTF-8".
Ah, I suddenly feel 6mm tall: being the forgetful, moderately-used edge I am, I neglect to maintain the awareness of my always using UXterm ;-/ Post-enlightenment has revealed the source of my LC_*=en_US.UTF-8 output--XTerm gives me what I expect to see.
What version you using? If you're in unstable dpkg reconfigure locales won't do it. You have to also do this: [steps_to_completion]: http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/language.phtml (which is about installing multilingual search engines)
I followed the steps as described, and I was able to create my locales in /usr/lib/locale Thank you--this is what I would have expected to have seen 'Pre-steps_to_completion', since there are the desired sub-folders in my Woody:/usr/lib/locale ;-)
Pre-steps_to_completion: $ locale -a C POSIX Post-steps_to_completion: $ locale -a C en_US en_US.ISO-8859-15 en_US.UTF-8 POSIXI have activated my account with the 'export LANG="C"' and 'export LC_ALL="locale_of_choice"' included in ~/user/.bash_profile' and /root/.bash_profile--using each of the previous locales.
It seems to work :-)Yet, having LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" still produces odd-looking characters at times, such as in '$ man dpkg'. I get no odd-looking characters when using en_US (ISO-8859-1) or en_US.ISO-8859-15 More to learn ;-)
Now, at least, I have a configured-base, and a much better understanding--Thank You Emma.
-- andyrew