Re: Locale 'C' gone?

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Kevin Mark:
> 
> sometime over the past year my locales got zapped. Somehow 'C' is
> gone. 

I'm not sure that's possible.  However:

  - type "locale"

> I now have en_US. Some of the script give me warnings but they work.
> But, I'd like to get 'C' and 'POSIX' back. I've tried 
> 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'
> a few times after various upgrades. Any ideas?

If "locale -a | less" shows C and POSIX, you should be able to (as
root) "locale-gen"

Look in root's startup shell scripts (surely, you didn't change them
from bash?).  ~root/.bash_profile (or maybe ~root/.profile) and
~root/.bashrc may have things like:

  LC_ALL="en_US.ISO-8859-1"
  LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1"
  LANGUAGE="en_US.ISO-8859-1"

in them.  Comment those out.  If that was the problem, logging out
then back in should fix it.  If not, check /etc/profile


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