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wj6202

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Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 4

Why my locales en_US.utf8 doesn't work?

NO matter what I'm runing from gnome-terminal( oprea  openffice etc.). It always notice me that  my "en_US.utf8" was not supported, and changed to "C".  What's the hell is that?!   
My locale is:  en_US  en_US.utf8   zh_CN  zh_CN.utf8 zh_TW  zh_TW.utf8
And I never change the locale settings in /etc/rc.conf, is default "en_US.utf8"
Any body knows why?

klixon

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 525

Re: Why my locales en_US.utf8 doesn't work?

First, uncomment the locales you want in /etc/locale.gen
Then run this

# locale-gen

Then if necessary change your locale in /etc/rc.conf

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wj6202

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Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 4

Re: Why my locales en_US.utf8 doesn't work?

doesn't work   I already done like that!  but still not work!

klixon

Member

From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 525

Re: Why my locales en_US.utf8 doesn't work?

whats's the output of

# locale -a

and

# grep -v "^#" /etc/locale.gen

You get no error-messages or warnings when running locale-gen?

Last edited by klixon (2007-05-25 08:21:39)

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gerryAU

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From: Australia

Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 37

Re: Why my locales en_US.utf8 doesn't work?

I had a similar problem as well, this helped me

from http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=32770

- ADDITIONAL COMMENT: FIXED -
I was kindly advised by Neverther on IRC to remove /etc/locale.gen before reinstalling glibc & I'm glad to report that it worked perfectly, thanks again.