Locale problems

justin · 2007-08-02 06:03:17

I am having trouble figuring out how to set up my locales. I had this working before, but I've since reinstalled Arch and can't remember how I did it. I use aterm, and If I have my locale in /etc/rc.conf set to "en_US" and the "en_US ISO-8859-1" line uncommented in /etc/locale.gen, the characters in aterm are just fine:

but when I open vlc, I get

If I uncomment both "en_US ISO-8859-1" and "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" in /etc/locale.gen, vlc works, but aterms characters look like this:

Any suggestions on getting both aterm and vlc to work?

rayjgu3 · 2007-08-02 11:22:35

as root run locale-gen

justin · 2007-08-02 16:56:53

I've done that after every change, but I still get the same problem.

thayer · 2007-08-02 17:06:56

This probably won't help, but in my case I find that /etc/profile always sets LC_COLLATE to C, regardless of my rc.conf settings. It messes up my file sort orders unless I comment the line out. Perhaps there is something in your /etc/profile?

justin · 2007-08-03 23:49:58

Fixed after a reboot, but not sure why. Does screen keep you from logging out 'completely'?

saciel · 2007-08-05 01:35:11

Actually, before running locale-gen you have to uncomment the locales you would like to generate in '/etc/locale.gen'.

eldarion · 2007-08-05 17:01:58

Have you changed the LOCALE line in /etc/rc.conf with LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8" ?

justin · 2007-08-05 22:42:55

Thanks for all your suggestions, but as I posted earlier, it's now fixed after a reboot.

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Locale problems

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