Re: Changing locale

[Christoph Nenning <christoph.nenning@gmx.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 09:12 schrieb Masatran (Deepak), R.:
> I am changing my locale to "ta_IN". I have "export LANG='ta_IN'" in my
> .bashrc, '. "$HOME/.bashrc"' in my .bash_profile, and
> '. "$HOME/.bash_profile"' in my .xsession. In GDM, I am using "Default
> System Session".
>
> 1. But for example, in Gnome -> Applications-menu -> Games -> Ataxx,
> "Ataxx" is displayed in English even though its Launcher-properties shows
> that the Tamil name is also available. What am I doing wrong?
>
> 2. I am using Debian 3.1 with many backports. Does using backports cause
> problems with locale?
>
> 3. A server that I am not a superuser on, probably has a faulty
> /usr/share/i18n/locales/ta_IN. How can I bypass this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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Hi,

Have you generated this locale? If not:
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure locales

regards