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From: William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:43:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1277556234.8753.29.camel@rattus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006261338.59975.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:38 +0100, Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > Mick writes:
> > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > > > Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads
> > 
> > You might want to read this and set up your locales properly.
> > 
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml
> 
> Thanks Bill, that's where I started, but I am getting confused with the way my 
> system and various terminals respond to the suggested files/settings.
> 
> The only way to see the locales I entered in /etc/env.d/02locale is by 
> launching a terminal (aterm, xterm, urxvt) and 'su -' to root.  In all other 
> cases US locales seem to take over (although the LANG setting appears to be 
> working).

Could it be your desktop overiding the basics? - gnome or kde perhaps?
Also check the login manager (I use GDM and there is a language setting
for the login there.)

BillK







  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-26 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-22  1:14 [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales Christopher Swift
2010-06-22 13:38 ` Mick
2010-06-22 16:14   ` Christopher Swift
2010-06-26 10:40     ` Mick
2010-06-26 10:49       ` Mick
2010-06-26 11:10         ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-26 11:29           ` Mick
2010-06-26 11:59             ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-26 12:20               ` William Kenworthy
2010-06-26 12:38                 ` Mick
2010-06-26 12:43                   ` William Kenworthy [this message]
2010-06-26 13:54                     ` Mick
2010-06-26 13:41                   ` Christopher Swift
2010-06-26 12:54             ` Joerg Schilling
2010-06-25 18:05 ` Enrico Weigelt
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2010-06-26 15:27       ` David W Noon
2010-06-26 15:40         ` Dale
2010-06-26 17:17           ` Mick
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     [not found]         ` <eZFNL-m1-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2010-06-26 17:37           ` David W Noon

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