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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2000 20:33:35 -0400
From:      Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@home.com>
To:        Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: locale questions
Message-ID:  <39CBFA5F.10DF0A4C@home.com>
References:  <39CB5D39.E889EC30@prokyon.com>

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Chris Browning wrote:
> 
> I get the following warning when trying to run any one of
> several gnome apps (glade, pan, spruce, etc.):
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to
> C
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers
> 
> I was getting complaints with perl, too but after some
> research, I seemed to fix those by setting:
> LC_ALL=en_US.ISO_8859-1;        export LC_ALL
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO_8859-1;      export LC_CTYPE
> LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1;          export LANG
> 
> I notice that:
> bash-2.04$ ls /usr/X11R6/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/
> control-center.mo       gimp.mo                 gnome-libs.mo
> ee.mo                   glade.mo                gnome-media.mo
> ghex.mo                 gnome-applets.mo        gnome-pim.mo
> gimp-libgimp.mo         gnome-core.mo           gnome-utils.mo
> gimp-script-fu.mo       gnome-games.mo          gnumeric.mo
> gimp-std-plugins.mo     gnome-iconedit.mo       sawfish.mo
> 
> but I want en_US. I'm not in Britain.
> bash-2.04$ ls /usr/X11R6/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES
> enlightenment.mo
> 
> I also notice that:
> bash-2.04$ ls /usr/compat/linux/usr/share/locale/en_US
> LC_COLLATE      LC_MESSAGES     LC_NUMERIC
> LC_CTYPE        LC_MONETARY     LC_TIME
> 
> but
> bash-2.04$ ls /usr/X11R6/share/locale/en_US
> LC_MESSAGES
> 
> I think I'm on the right track here, but I don't know just
> how I managed to get this configuration or just how to fix
> it. I'm running FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE and Gnome-1.2. Anyone?
> Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> --
> ------------------------
> Chris Browning
> brownicm@prokyon.com
> ------------------------
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 My bandaid solution was to:
 ln -s /usr/share/locale/en_US.ISO_8859-1 /usr/share/locale/en_US
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