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I always wondered why my GNOME root term talks English to me although the system language is set to German. I found out that for dubious reasons in the GNOME root terminal no LANG variable is set:
[root@concorde ~]# 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 wonder how this can be as the systemwide locale is set in rc.conf?
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Try ading
export LC_MESSAGES="C"or LANG or LC_ALL to your .bashrc. Just change "C" to whatever you need, like a German locale.
If you're running as a user, is everything OK?
Last edited by karol (2010-09-18 00:19:05)
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Try ading
export LC_MESSAGES="C"or LANG or LC_ALL to your .bashrc. Just change "C" to whatever you need, like a German locale.
You mean to root's .bashrc? I already tried adding
export LANG="de_DE.utf8"but then special symbols ä,ö,ü,ß aren't displayed correctly.
If you're running as a user, is everything OK?
Yes as genuine user everything is fine.
Last edited by schmoemi (2010-09-18 20:19:16)
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You have different locales for the user?
I remember having some problems with displaying accented characters when I've set LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8" in the rc.conf but used Polish accented letters ą, ę etc. What have you set your LOCALE in rc.conf to? Is this what you mean by saying "system language is set to German"?
I don't know if Gnome is part of the equation, I know nothing about any DE.
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