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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales
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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:41:17 +0100
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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).
In my /etc/env.d/02locale file, it reads as the following:
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C"
When running "locale" as either root or any other user I get:
chris@ianto-gentoo-amd ~ $ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
If you want en_GB I recommend that you change it to what I've got in my
02locale file and then run the following command as root:
$ env-update && source /etc/profile
This is what I've used to globally set en_GB as the default language.
Hope this helps,
Chris.