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Re: Where is faq/HOWTO for changing locale?



Nathan E Norman wrote:

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 11:59:35AM -0800, Peter Farley wrote:
I need to change my locale from LANG=C to LANG=en_US
on debian-390 (woody-3.0r1), running under hercules
390 emulator.  Just changing the value of LANG does
not seem to do what I expect.  In fact, it doesn't
seem to do much of anything.

Could someone please point me to a faq or HOWTO that
tells what packages need to be installed and a
step-by-step procedure for changing locale?

TIA for any info and RTFM's you can provide.

I don't have any FAQ pointers, but have you tried setting
LC_ALL=en_US ?  I apologise for stating the obvious, but you also have
to export the variables once you set them.


In many cases you need to compile the locale files first with locale-gen (8).
running
dpkg-reconfigure locales
will provide a comfortable interface for this

IFireBall.




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