Re: Problem with console and locales

["Paul Csanyi" <csanyipal@gmail.com>]

2008/1/22, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>:
> [ Please stop top-posting. ]
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 21:59:13 -0600, Alejandro Aguila Sáinz wrote:
> > 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").
>
> [...]
>
> > Generating locales (this might take a while)...
> >   es_MX.UTF-8... done
> >   es_MX.ISO-8859-1... done
> > Generation complete.
>
> [...]
>
> > Any idea? Thanks
>
> Run
>
> export LC_ALL="es_MX.UTF-8" LANG="es_MX.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="es_MX.UTF-8"
>
> right before you try "dpkg-reconfigure locales" again. Then make
> es_MX.UTF-8 the system-wide default. Afterwards log out, log in again
> and verify the settings by running "locale".
>
> Then execute
>
> echo -e "S\0303\0241inz"
>
> and check if this prints your last name correctly. If you get two
> "weird" characters instead of the accented a, then your terminal does
> not understand UTF-8. If you get one placeholder character (a box or a
> question mark), then your font is missing the "á" symbol.

Try console-setup tool too!

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