Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:49:48 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issues with incorrect locale settings Message-ID: <42127C8C.1030805@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1108507388.1529.1.camel@localhost> References: <20050214183838.704c2e4c@localhost.localdomain> <1108447939.91053.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1108507388.1529.1.camel@localhost>
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Trey Sizemore wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 01:12 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >>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. >>> >>>Here's my locale output >>> >>>trey@salamander~> locale >>>LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >>>LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" >>>LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" >>>LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" >>>LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" >>>LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" >>>LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" >>>LC_ALL= >>> >>>It appears that the entries presented with quotes (COLLATE) is telling >>>me there's a problem. >> >>What problem? >> >> >>>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 >> > > My question is with my locale settings set as above, > why are my gnome apps still using the C locale when sorting mail > folders (case sensitive) and displaying dates for the current locale? > How can I change the locale settings to a reasonable US_en setting if > the above is not working? Those *are* the en_US settings. There are no en_US settings separate from anything specified in the C locale. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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