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patriotpie

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Registered: 2008-09-21

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] Bad locale?

I'm using awesome WM, and was adding a few things to go along with it, many of which complained that they didn't know what locale I was using, and that they were using the "standard fallback 'C' locale" once I ran them.

now I tried installing pypanel, and was faced down with this:

[patriotpie@piehost ~]$ pypanel
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pypanel", line 948, in <module>
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 478, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

and again, when using nitrogen:

(nitrogen:3047): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale.

where does the system store locale info, and what do I need to set it to in order to not get these messages?

Last edited by patriotpie (2011-02-27 15:28:40)

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: [SOLVED] Bad locale?

Does this help?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

patriotpie

Member

Registered: 2008-09-21

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Bad locale?

why yes, quite a bit.

*thumps self in head for not reading wiki*

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: [SOLVED] Bad locale?

Wonderful that you fixed it.  Please mark this thread as solved (edit your first post).  That way, others with locale problems can find help easily.  Thanks.