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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:12:19 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Issues with incorrect locale settings
Message-ID:  <1108447939.91053.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 18:38 -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> It would appear that my locale settings are defaulting back to C, at
> least for gnome apps. I log in using GDM and set my locale to en _US but
> my gnome/gtk apps (specifically mailers like sylpheed and evolution)
> default to C when sorting my mail folders (case sensitive) or presenting
> date formats for the current locale.
>=20
> Here's my locale output
>=20
> trey@salamander~> locale
> LANG=3Den_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE=3D"en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE=3D"en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME=3D"en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC=3D"en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY=3D"en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES=3D"en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=3D
>=20
> It appears that the entries presented with quotes (COLLATE) is telling
> me there's a problem.

What problem?

>=20
> How can I fix this? It's driving me crazy.

I usually just set LANG to en_US.ISO8859-1 or en_US.UTF-8 (I never
bother with the other LC_* variables).  However, GNOME's default
language is en_US, so you really don't notice much of a difference
except when dealing with extended 8-bit Latin characters.

Joe

>=20
> Thanks.
>=20
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