Re: Problem with console and locales

On 1/21/08, Lennart Andersen <lka0871@rogers.com> wrote:

* Alejandro Aguila Sáinz <alekz@linuxmerida.org> [2008-01-21 21:59-0600]
>    Hi, now I sent dpkg-reconfigure again and I get this:
>    debian:/home/alekz# dpkg-reconfigure locales
>    perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>    perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>            LANGUAGE = "Es_es",
>            LC_ALL = "Es_es",
>            LANG = "es_MX"
>        are supported and installed on your system.
>    perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>    locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
>    locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or
>    directory
>    locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
>    /usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or
>    directory
>    /usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or
>    directory
>    /usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or
>    directory
>    Generating locales (this might take a while)...
>      es_MX.UTF-8... done
>      es_MX.ISO-8859-1... done
>    Generation complete.
>    perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>    perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>            LANGUAGE = "Es_es",
>            LC_ALL = "Es_es",
>            LANG = "es_MX"
>        are supported and installed on your system.
>    perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>    perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>    perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>            LANGUAGE = "Es_es",
>            LC_ALL = "Es_es",
>            LANG = "es_MX"
>        are supported and installed on your system.
>    perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>    debian:/home/alekz#
>
>    Any idea? Thanks
>
>    On 1/21/08, Alejandro Aguila Sáinz <[1]alekz@ linuxmerida.org> wrote:
>
>      Hey there! Thanks for your interest, and yes the font I have supports my
>      special characters, and everything was ok untill I reconfigured locales.
>
>      Thanks
>
>      On 1/21/08, [2]kumar.appaiah@gmail.com < [3]kumar.appaiah@gmail.com>
>      wrote:
>
>        On 22/01/2008, Alejandro Aguila Sainz wrote:
>        > Hi, I have a problem with my console, I changed my locales by using
>        > dpkg-reconfigure locales but now the console is not taking all the
>        > characters, I'm from Mexico so I use locales es_MX UTF-8, and
>        console can't
>        > see or type acents, if someone can help me would be great! Thanks.
>
>        Dear Alejandro,
>
>        While this may not be helpful, I would just want you to check if the
>        font you are using for your console supports the characters you want.
>        Earlier, I faced similar problems which vanished when I chose the
>        right font. Try DejaVu Sans Mono, for instance.
>
>        HTH.
>
>        Kumar
>
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Try to put this in your .bashrc file

export LC_CTYPE=Es_es

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