At Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:21:30 +0100, Osvaldo La Rosa wrote: > I encounter probably a classical problem: after installing locales and > choose for ex. en_US iso8859-1 it would be nice if: > a) the /etc/locale.gen contains this param > b) the /etc/environment is generated (it does not until know anad as far as > I observed) > c) it would be nice if the environment is reloaded so that this new locales > will take effect without having to reboot the system.
"take effect" is obscure representation... Do you think the current all program should change the environment variable? It's impossible. I recommend reboot or restart daemons. OTOH, try "telnet localhost". You see /etc/environment is affected immediately. > Note: the same problem occurs while installing the Debian system from cd or > from net, locales are never configured after you configure them, and no > matter what you choosed (fr, nl, en). This may be debian installer wishlist? Regards, -- gotom
