The problem is getting worse now. My /home filesystems has historically been formatted with XFS and I've been using UTF8 encoding since long now. A few files there sport non-ASCII characters in the name, mainly a few accented vowels from my home language (Italian). I have recently reinstalled the whole system (XFS+UTF8) and have restored the /home contents from a straight backup (another XFS+UTF8 file system) with "cp -a" command. Everything seemed to work fine until I run a simple "ls -l" in a directory containing one of those files. That name gets displayed with "??" instead of the accented vowels. A software referring to another of those files says it cannot access it any more. The bash doesn't allow me to enter those accented vowels any more. I think the "locales" systems is behaving badly.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1410676 Title: Doesn't recognize locale properly Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: My current locale settings are: LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_TIME="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_NAME="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="it_IT.UTF-8" as defined in /etc/default/locale and LC_COLLATE="C" in my ~/.bashrc That is: I need all messages in Englishwhile using local (Italian) cenventions for numbers, time etc and use "C" collation. Everytime I run apt-get I get this error message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_TIME = "en_IT.UTF-8", LC_MONETARY = "en_IT.UTF-8", LC_COLLATE = "C", LC_ADDRESS = "en_IT.UTF-8", LC_TELEPHONE = "en_IT.UTF-8", LC_NAME = "en_IT.UTF-8", LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_IT.UTF-8", LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_IT.UTF-8", LC_NUMERIC = "en_IT.UTF-8", LC_PAPER = "en_IT.UTF-8", LANG = "en_IT.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory As you can see, the locale is recognized improperly as "en_IT" instead of "it_IT". I would expect no such mangling. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-44.73-lowlatency 3.13.11-ckt12 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-44-lowlatency x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jan 14 08:46:47 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-12 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2) SourcePackage: apt UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1410676/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp