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Re: Locale issue



On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 05:25:52PM +0100, John wrote:
> Whenever I run emacs on my 64bit Debian (Jessie) machine via ssh I see
> 
> (process:20589): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
>         Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> 
> root@snout:~# printenv (edited)
> 
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> XTERM_LOCALE=C
> XTERM_VERSION=XTerm(312)
> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> Is this just another annoyance or can it be stopped?

On the Debian system, as root, run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and make
sure you select the en_GB.utf8 locale as one of the locales to generate.
(As well as any others that you or other users may use in the future.)


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