Re: LANG=C not English?



On 02/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 02:57:45PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On a Debian-based system (Ubuntu 7.04) running KDE 3.5.8, why would
> the "C" LANG parameter not be English? Lookie here:
>
> feisty@feisty-laptop:~$ echo $LANG
> he_IL.utf8
> feisty@feisty-laptop:~$ export LANG=C
> feisty@feisty-laptop:~$ echo $LANG
> C
> feisty@feisty-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install kde-core
> [snip]
> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> לחבילות הבאות יש תלויות שלא נענו:
> amazonmp3: Depends: libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a אבל היא אינה הולכת להיות מותקנת
> Depends: libboost-thread1.34.1 אבל היא אינה ניתנת להתקנה
> Depends: libboost-iostreams1.34.1 אבל היא אינה ניתנת להתקנה
> Depends: libboost-signals1.34.1 אבל היא אינה ניתנת להתקנה
> Depends: libboost-date-time1.34.1 אבל היא אינה ניתנת להתקנה
> Depends: xdg-utils אבל היא אינה הולכת להיות מותקנת
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> specify a solution).
> feisty@feisty-laptop:~$
>
> See that Hebrew text? Other applications, such as Thunderbird and
> Gimp, that are run after LANG=C also do not appear in English. Why is
> that, and how to correct it? Thanks in advance.


What is the output of:

LANG=C locale

Do you set LANGUAGES ?


$ LANG=C locale
LANG=C
LANGUAGE=he_IL:he:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="he_IL.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="he_IL.utf8"
LC_TIME="he_IL.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="he_IL.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="he_IL.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="he_IL.utf8"
LC_PAPER="he_IL.utf8"
LC_NAME="he_IL.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="he_IL.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="he_IL.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="he_IL.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="he_IL.utf8"
LC_ALL=he_IL.utf8

I see. How does one set the locate parameters for LANG=C? And when I
do set them, to what English is C expected to be? Could you post for
me the output of your C locale so that I might set mine to the same
values? Thanks, Tzafrir.

Dotan Cohen

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