Re: Where is faq/HOWTO for changing locale?

[Barak Korren <ifireball@ifireball.4t3.com>]

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.