On Wed, 2024-07-17 at 13:22 +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Jul 17 09:59:01, mwg...@btinternet.com wrote:
> > HI All,
> >
> > I'm trying to resolve a trivial, but annoying problem with using
> > Evolution mail on my OpenBSD setup. The style of date used in the
> > list
> > of mail in my inbox is in US format, i.e month first, day second,
> > and I
> > want it is UK format, day first, then month.
>
> Does Evolution itself have a knob for that?
No, unfortunately it doesn't. It picks up its behaviour from the
locale. That's definitely how it works on other systems, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, Linux etc.
>
> > I know how to fix this in
> > FreeBSD by including LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 etc in a number of text
> > files.
> > However on OpenBSD, this hasn't worked in exactly the same way.
>
> So what happened on OpenBSD, after defining LANG?
> (Note that LANG is a fallback if any of the LC_* are unset.)
>
> As you probably know, the base system ignores the locale
> except for the character encoding (LC_CTYPE);
> that is not the case for packages though.
>
> > As an aside, I was getting a similar problem with Libreoffice
> > defaulting to
> > USA dictionaries, but that has been fixed and is picking up its
> > locale
> > properly from one of the text files I amended.
> >
> > text files where i have the correct variable is :
> >
> > .bashrc
> > .bash_profile
> > .xinitrc
> > .xsession
> > .profile
>
I've added the following to the above files:-
export LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
export LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
export LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
export LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
export LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"
export LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
export LANGUAGE="en_GB.UTF-8
That's probably overkill, but I'm throwing spaghetti at the wall now!
> If by "the correct variable" you mean LANG=en_GB.UTF-8,
> then it sets all the _unset_ LC vars for you.
> Can you pinpoint it to which of the LC vars specificaly
> is the one that alters Evolution's behaviour (if any)?
>
> > /etc/login.conf - yes I did run cap_mkdb.
>
> What exactly have ypu put in there?
added to bottom of the default section of login.conf :-
:LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8:\
:LC_TYPE=en_GB.UTF-8:\
:LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8:\
:LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8:\
:LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8:\
:LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8:\
:LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8:\
:LANG=en_GB.UTF-8:\
:LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8:
Again, overkill but, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>
> > when I issue the locale command from the terminal, it shows all the
> > correct en_GB.UTF-8 variables. So everything looks OK, but i'm
> > obviously missing something. So if there is another text file to
> > amend
> > I would apprecate any suggestion.
>
> I would consult Evolutuon's documentation first.
> Wouldn't a mail client have a knob for the date format?
>
> Jan
>
