So C.UTF-8 in itself does not count as a valid locale, and I have to add something like en_US.UTF-8?
The problem seems to show up only in gnome though. In console mode, things are fine without en_US.UTF-8. On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 9:52 AM john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> wrote: > On 2/28/2020 3:34 PM, Ted Baker wrote: > >> > >> You should use 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'. > >> > > > > I actually tried `sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales`, but C.UTF-8 is not > even > > $ DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text dpkg-reconfigure locales > Configuring locales > ------------------- > > Locales are a framework to switch between multiple languages and allow > users to > use their language, country, characters, collation order, etc. > > Please choose which locales to generate. UTF-8 locales should be chosen by > default, particularly for new installations. Other character sets may be > useful > for backwards compatibility with older systems and software. > > 1. All locales 249. gl_ES ISO-8859-1 > 2. aa_DJ ISO-8859-1 250. gl_ES.UTF-8 UTF-8 > 3. aa_DJ.UTF-8 UTF-8 251. gl_ES@euro ISO-8859-15 > 248. gez_ET@abegede UTF-8 496. zu_ZA.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > (Enter the items you want to select, separated by spaces.) > > Locales to be generated: 2 > > > Many packages in Debian use locales to display text in the correct > language for > the user. You can choose a default locale for the system from the generated > locales. > > This will select the default language for the entire system. If this > system is a > multi-user system where not all users are able to speak the default > language, > they will experience difficulties. > > 1. None 2. C.UTF-8 3. aa_DJ > > Default locale for the system environment: > > > > In other words, one language needs to be selected in order to be able to > choose 'none' (use none if you access the host through SSH) or 'C.UTF-8. > > > on the list, so I can only remove en_US.UTF-8 there. Then I did `sudo > > update-locale LANG=C.UTF-8`. As far as I know, these steps basically > > modifies /etc/locale.gen, runs locale-gen, and modifies > /etc/default/locale. > > > > See, (1). > > 1) https://wiki.debian.org/Locale > > > P.S. > > The frontend can be ommited. > > -- > John Doe > >
