On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:45 PM, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman ha scritto: > >> TOP POSTED SUMMARY: operator error. An incorrect setting of LANG and >> LC_ALL were in /etc/profile. >> They had been suggested by the guide, but were incorrectly done and >> override the results of all the >> 02locale and locale.gen things. >> >> Now one X restart later, k3b and perl and I are all happy. >> >> Thanks for suggesting a re-reading, Daniel. >> > > Could you please provide the solution? I have the same problem and the > thread is all but clear to me. > > > In my case, the solution was to remove the (incorrect) LANG and LC_ALL assignments I had edited into /etc/profile. The 02locale and locale.gen files did the job correctly.
I tracked this down by putting a lot of debugging stuff in the various shell startup files. They looked like this: [ -e /etc/conf.d/D ] && echo This is /etc/profile\; LANG is $LANG\; LC_ALL is $LC_ALL ... [ -e /etc/conf.d/D ] && echo End of /etc/profile\; LANG is $LANG\; LC_ALL is $LC_ALL And I can switch them on and off by creating/rm-ing /etc/conf.d/D. This showed me where the variables were getting values, and what the values were. By the time I was done, I had them in ~/.bashrc ~/.mybashrc (you may or may not have this file) ~/.bash_profile /etc/profile /etc/bash/bashrc They are still there, but inactive since I have deleted /etc/conf.d/D (a file of my own creation). If you don't use bash, you'll have to design your own variant of this approach. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
