On Jul 17 09:59:01, mwg...@btinternet.com wrote: > HI All, > > I'm trying to resolve a trivial, but annoying problem with using > Evolution mail on my OpenBSD setup. The style of date used in the list > of mail in my inbox is in US format, i.e month first, day second, and I > want it is UK format, day first, then month.
Does Evolution itself have a knob for that? > I know how to fix this in > FreeBSD by including LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 etc in a number of text files. > However on OpenBSD, this hasn't worked in exactly the same way. So what happened on OpenBSD, after defining LANG? (Note that LANG is a fallback if any of the LC_* are unset.) As you probably know, the base system ignores the locale except for the character encoding (LC_CTYPE); that is not the case for packages though. > As an aside, I was getting a similar problem with Libreoffice defaulting to > USA dictionaries, but that has been fixed and is picking up its locale > properly from one of the text files I amended. > > text files where i have the correct variable is : > > .bashrc > .bash_profile > .xinitrc > .xsession > .profile If by "the correct variable" you mean LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, then it sets all the _unset_ LC vars for you. Can you pinpoint it to which of the LC vars specificaly is the one that alters Evolution's behaviour (if any)? > /etc/login.conf - yes I did run cap_mkdb. What exactly have ypu put in there? > when I issue the locale command from the terminal, it shows all the > correct en_GB.UTF-8 variables. So everything looks OK, but i'm > obviously missing something. So if there is another text file to amend > I would apprecate any suggestion. I would consult Evolutuon's documentation first. Wouldn't a mail client have a knob for the date format? Jan
