On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:05:20 +0100
Hugo Mills <hugo@???> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:56:59AM +0100, John Lewis wrote:
> > Why do I need to have a US locale on my system?
> >
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed
> > Per: warning: Please check your locale settings:
> > LANGUAGE = (unset),
> > LC_ALL = (unset),
> > Lang = "en_US.UTF-8"
> > are supported and installed on your system
> > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C")
> At a guess, you've still got en_US.UTF-8 set as your default
> charset. Take a look in /etc/default/locale, and /etc/environment.
> If you change those, you will probably have to restart your X
> session at minimum. You can also change it for a single shell
> session by setting LANG=en_GB.UTF-8.
OK, I have edited /etc/default/locale but there isn't
any /etc/environment to alter.
> dpkg-reconfigure locales should also ask you which locale you
> want to set as a system-wide default.
It did and I told it to use en_GB.utf-8 (I had used dpkg-reconfigure
locales to remove all the European countries included by default
during installation)
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John Lewis
Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package