Re: Locale set to "C"

On 10/02/2011 12:54 PM, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:15:32 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:

On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 19:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noelamac@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:21:23 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:

Hi, on a new Wheezy installation locale reports all the LC_* options
set to "C". As a result I can't see greek, they display as question
marks in gnome-terminal.

Hum... and what returns "locale -a"?

panayk@singapore:~$ locale -a
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX
el_GR.utf8
en_US.utf8

So Greek and US English are both installed. Good.

/etc/default/locale appropriately sets the default locale to
"en_US.UTF-8". I also tried /etc/profile and /etc/environment but the
locale remains set to "C".

What am I missing? Any help appreciated!

You may want to try to reconfigure the package ("dpkg-reconfigure
locales").

I've tried this many times, but thanks!

I thought the wanted locale could be missing (not installed) but no, is
there.

I read the article on debian-administration about locales, and there
seems to be nothing I've missed. So I am considering this a bug. I
reported it against package "locales", even thought it's probably caused
by something else.

Bug number is 644047.

Yes, it seems a bit strange that choosen locale does not stick :-?

If you are using a DE, did you also check for the correct locale at the
login screen?

I will check in a minute. Also I am pretty sure I didn't set the locale
to "C". I copied .profile, .bashrc from another computer, where locales
work.

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Best regards,
Panayiotis Karabassis


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