Re: Locale set to "C"
On 10/02/2011 12:54 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:15:32 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 19:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:21:23 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, on a new Wheezy installation locale reports all the LC_* options
>>>> set to "C". As a result I can't see greek, they display as question
>>>> marks in gnome-terminal.
>>>
>>> Hum... and what returns "locale -a"?
>>
>> panayk@singapore:~$ locale -a
>> C
>> C.UTF-8
>> POSIX
>> el_GR.utf8
>> en_US.utf8
>
> So Greek and US English are both installed. Good.
>
>>>> /etc/default/locale appropriately sets the default locale to
>>>> "en_US.UTF-8". I also tried /etc/profile and /etc/environment but the
>>>> locale remains set to "C".
>>>>
>>>> What am I missing? Any help appreciated!
>>>
>>> You may want to try to reconfigure the package ("dpkg-reconfigure
>>> locales").
>>
>> I've tried this many times, but thanks!
>
> I thought the wanted locale could be missing (not installed) but no, is
> there.
>
>> I read the article on debian-administration about locales, and there
>> seems to be nothing I've missed. So I am considering this a bug. I
>> reported it against package "locales", even thought it's probably caused
>> by something else.
>>
>> Bug number is 644047.
>
> Yes, it seems a bit strange that choosen locale does not stick :-?
>
> If you are using a DE, did you also check for the correct locale at the
> login screen?
I will check in a minute. Also I am pretty sure I didn't set the locale
to "C". I copied .profile, .bashrc from another computer, where locales
work.
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Best regards,
Panayiotis Karabassis
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