Hi everyone,

I am trying to figure out where my locale is set.  Here are some key points:

1) My laptop has a fresh Mepis 8.0 install on the root partition
2) /home is on a separate partition
3) My home directory has been copied from an historical location (i.e. I
move the whole thing to a new machine when I upgrage).  This means there
is a lot of cruft in the .files and other places.
4) At some point in the past I got SCIM working for Japanese text input,
and I seem to have set the locale to ja_JP
5) I can't find out how to change it back!!

I have set my language preferences in the KDE control panel, but they have
no effect.  I have removed the LANG=ja_JP entry from .xsession, no effect.
 I have the 'locale' command, so I can see in a terminal that I have a
Japanese locale.  I do not have (and can't get) the 'setlocale' command.

The net result is that when X starts some of my programs appear in
Japanese.  I need to set the locale back to en_NZ.UTF-8 or en-GB or en-US
so that they start acting properly.  Once I have done that I can use nabi
for Korean text entry.

A quick grep shows ja_JP is present in

.xsession (commented out)
.cshrc
.cshrc.language-env-bak
.Xresources
.Xresources.language-env-bak
.bashrc
.bashrc.language-env-bak

I don't know which one has the most significant effect, or if there are
any others I should be aware of.

Hints and tips would be appreciated.

Best wishes,

Andrew

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