Thanks Alexander. That worked. I set it in .bashrc which is sourced in ,profile
On Aug 31, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/31/11 6:47 PM, Richard Miles wrote: >> How can I set Locale to “en_US”. It is now “ja_JP.UTF-8” I want >> english not japanese. I have tried eveything I can think of. It >> never changes. I am in Mac OS X 10.6.8 intel imac. 32bit awaiting >> for your help. Thanks in advance. >> >> Richard Miles [email protected] >> >> >> >> > > Ah, so that's what was causing your problem. I was racking my brains > trying to figure out what in Fink might manipulate the font settings. > > If you do > > printenv | grep ja_JP.UTF-8 > > that may show what environment variable is set wrong. It's probably > "LANG", but let's be sure. > > You can put > > export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > in your .profile (assuming that's your startup file and you're on > bash, and LANG is what's set to Japanese), and that will work around > the problem. > > I can't imagine that Fink did this, though. This smacks of something > altering a global shell control file. > - -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk5evNYACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+/8gCeKKNrW7rlgT0RLMRGZarLe4BE > bJMAnia2cuvtSIJO1uQ5uuQYgy9nO7H5 > =/Zb6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Richard Miles [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
