On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 June 2010 17:14:13 Christopher Swift wrote:
> > Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick:
> > > I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler:
> > > 
> > > I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why running 'locale'
> > > as a plain user shows:
> > > 
> > > $ locale
> > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> > > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> > > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> > > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> > > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> > > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> > > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> > > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> > > 
> > > why when running it as root:
> > > 
> > > # locale
> > > LANG=
> > > LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
> > > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
> > > LC_TIME="POSIX"
> > > LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
> > > LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
> > > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
> > > LC_PAPER="POSIX"
> > > LC_NAME="POSIX"
> > > LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
> > > LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
> > > LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
> > > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
> > > LC_ALL=
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I do not have set a /etc/env.d/02locale yet, so where is my plain user
> > > locale being read from?
> > 
> > Your plain user locale is usually read from ~/.bashrc, this can be set
> > to en_GB by having the following lines:
> > export LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
> > export LC_COLLATE="C"
> 
> I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain user
> locale reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale?
> 
> I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user still
> shows all settings as "en_US.UTF-8" ... where is this US setting read
> from?

Oops!  This is more complicated that I thought ...

If, always as a plain user, I use aterm then /etc/env.d/02locale is read and 
LANG is en_GB.UTF-8.  However, if I use xterm it is still LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-- 
Regards,
Mick