Re: Changing locale

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> writes:

> Hello
>
> Bob Hilliard wrote:
>
>>      Selecting a default locale with "dpkg-reconfigure" does not make
>> that locale effective.  Is there any way to change the locale of the
>> system without rebooting?
>
> You can check if your settings were saved by editing /etc/environment.
> Please don't forget to completeley log out to apply the changes. 

     Thanks.  That is the answer I was looking for.  I hadn't been
logging out.

     To answer another poster's question - if `locale' returns the
new locale I consider the change has been effective.

     I would also like to know how to generate and set the `POSIX'
locale.  Although /usr/share/i18n/locales/POSIX exists,
`dpkg-reconfigure locales' does not offer it as a choice, and if it is
manually added to /etc/locale.gen, a subsequent `locale-gen' ignores
POSIX.  

     (I don't really want to run the POSIX locale.  I am writing a
script that needs to know the value of `LC_CTYPE' in the POSIX
locale.)

Regards,

Bob
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