Depending on your shell, .bashrc and .cshrc will matter. These are called after/from (depends on OS and I can't remember between commercial *nix and linux atm) /etc/profile, so that should also be checked.
hth, Steve On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 08:15 +0900, Andrew Errington wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am trying to figure out where my locale is set. Here are some key points: > > 1) My laptop has a fresh Mepis 8.0 install on the root partition > 2) /home is on a separate partition > 3) My home directory has been copied from an historical location (i.e. I > move the whole thing to a new machine when I upgrage). This means there > is a lot of cruft in the .files and other places. > 4) At some point in the past I got SCIM working for Japanese text input, > and I seem to have set the locale to ja_JP > 5) I can't find out how to change it back!! > > I have set my language preferences in the KDE control panel, but they have > no effect. I have removed the LANG=ja_JP entry from .xsession, no effect. > I have the 'locale' command, so I can see in a terminal that I have a > Japanese locale. I do not have (and can't get) the 'setlocale' command. > > The net result is that when X starts some of my programs appear in > Japanese. I need to set the locale back to en_NZ.UTF-8 or en-GB or en-US > so that they start acting properly. Once I have done that I can use nabi > for Korean text entry. > > A quick grep shows ja_JP is present in > > .xsession (commented out) > .cshrc > .cshrc.language-env-bak > .Xresources > .Xresources.language-env-bak > .bashrc > .bashrc.language-env-bak > > I don't know which one has the most significant effect, or if there are > any others I should be aware of. > > Hints and tips would be appreciated. > > Best wishes, > > Andrew > -- Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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