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