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gejr

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Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 92

My locale keeps resetting itself..

I have LOCALE="en_GB.utf8" in my rc.conf. And there's nothing about Locale in .bashrc. Still every time I reboot I get all locales set to "C".

Can anybody help me figure out why I can't get it to stick to en_GB.utf8 ? Also Gnome-terminal uses "Current locale" as default, which I guess would be fixed when I get this first thing away.

Thank you.

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: My locale keeps resetting itself..

Be sure to run locale-gen as root if you haven't done so already.

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gejr

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Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 92

Re: My locale keeps resetting itself..

locale-gen has been run.

# locale -a
C
en_GB.utf8
POSIX

# vi /etc/rc.conf
LOCALE="en_GB.utf8"

And after reboot:

# locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

Wtf?

slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: My locale keeps resetting itself..

unless it's been changed recently, i think you have to uncomment the locale you want in /etc/locale.gen and then run # locale-gen.

gejr

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Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 92

Re: My locale keeps resetting itself..

Yes. en_GB.utf8 is uncommented, and it's the only locale i've uncommented as of now. How else would it appear in locale -a? Thanks anyway!

thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,560

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Re: My locale keeps resetting itself..

If you're still looking for a solution, check /etc/profile for anything relating to LC_ variables.  I found export LC_COLLATE="C" in my /etc/profile and once I commented it out, my file listings went back to normal (case-insensitive).

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thayer williams ~ cinderwick.ca