> Gnome-terminal is unfortunately known to have troubles with non-UTF-8 > locales, see e.g. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732127.
> In your case, however, I suspect that you're doing something wrong with > your installation (because you also seem to aim for UTF-8). It's weird > to me that you use nonstandard tools to install them, rather than > localedef or locale-gen. > At the very least, what does "locale charmap" print with your locale? It > should be "UTF-8". Hi Egmont, and thanks for your attention to the bug. I certainly may have done something wrong; the online documentation about setting up a custom locale that I was able to find is confusing and sparse, and there seem to be very few tools to help an ordinary user customize a locale. I'm no locale expert; my motivation was just to use 24-hour time, YYYY- MM-DD dates, and the Metric system, even though I live in the US. I originally tried using localedef directly, but it exited with code 1, listing a slew of errors that didn't seem to have anything to do with the modest customizations that I made to the locale. Rather than spend all day at it I tried the Python script that I mentioned in the bug description, which calls localedef. The script reported success, and my simple locale-test program verified that I had installed the locale well enough to get the date and time formats I wanted. Unfortunately, once my custom locale was installed, every time I launched a GUI program from the command line I got a fontconfig() warning complaining about the locale. So I may have done something wrong, but I did succeed at getting the date and time formats I wanted. I filed the bug because I was able to launch a terminal under Ubuntu 14.10, but once I upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04, then I couldn't. $ LANG="rob_custom.UTF-8" $ locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory LANG=rob_custom.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US LC_CTYPE="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_TIME="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_NAME="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_ALL= $ locale charmap locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory ANSI_X3.4-1968 $ Aha, the charmap isn't UTF-8 for some reason. > You could also try setting LANG=<yourlocale> and LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > simultaneously - does this work? No, that doesn't seem to work. The "locale" command shows LC_CTYPE as "rob_custom.UTF-8" afterwards. - Rob -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1448563 Title: terminal won't launch with a customized locale To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1448563/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
