On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 17:14:13 Christopher Swift wrote: > > Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: > > > I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: > > > > > > I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why running 'locale' > > > as a plain user shows: > > > > > > $ locale > > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > > > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > > > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > > > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > > > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > > > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > > > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" > > > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" > > > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" > > > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" > > > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" > > > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" > > > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 > > > > > > why when running it as root: > > > > > > # locale > > > LANG= > > > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" > > > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" > > > LC_TIME="POSIX" > > > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > > > LC_MONETARY="POSIX" > > > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" > > > LC_PAPER="POSIX" > > > LC_NAME="POSIX" > > > LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" > > > LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" > > > LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" > > > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" > > > LC_ALL= > > > > > > > > > I do not have set a /etc/env.d/02locale yet, so where is my plain user > > > locale being read from? > > > > Your plain user locale is usually read from ~/.bashrc, this can be set > > to en_GB by having the following lines: > > export LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > > export LC_COLLATE="C" > > I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain user > locale reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale? > > I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user still > shows all settings as "en_US.UTF-8" ... where is this US setting read > from?
Oops! This is more complicated that I thought ... If, always as a plain user, I use aterm then /etc/env.d/02locale is read and LANG is en_GB.UTF-8. However, if I use xterm it is still LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -- Regards, Mick
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