Rudy Gevaert wrote: >> >> Solving this problem usually involves installing the package >> language-pack-en > I think that is an ubuntu specific package > >> and generating the locale by >> locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 >> >> I have found the locale under /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment. >> Maybe you can change that to "C", but I don't know if that will cure all >> your problems. > > The strange thing is that I don't have those files. So somewhere on my > system it picks en_US.UTF-8. But where? > > Does grep -r 'en_US.UTF-8' /etc show anything?
On a freshly installed etch this shows: /etc/environment:LANG="en_US.UTF-8" /etc/locale.gen:en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 /etc/gdm/locale.conf:English(USA) en_US.UTF-8 /etc/default/locale:LANG="en_US.UTF-8" Weird. Clueless Carsten