Re: wrong locale in kpackage kde 3.3.2

[Frans Pop]

On Friday 04 February 2005 20:51, Mauro Darida wrote:
> I have noticed that every time I install a package from kpackage it
> gives the following warnings:
> perl:warning:Setting locale failed.
> perl:warning:Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE=(unset)
> LC_ALL="en_US"
> LANG=(unset)
> are supported and installed on your system
> perl:warning:Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>
> This is what I have in my system locale settings:
> # cat /etc/profile
> # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for the Bourne shell (sh(1))
> # and Bourne compatible shells (bash(1), ksh(1), ash(1), ...).
[...]
> #
> # Imposto la localizzazione
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> export LANG
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> export LC_CTYPE
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> export LC_ALL

AFAIK /etc/profile is not read when you log in through KDM.
The proper place to set default LANG and LANGUAGE is /etc/environment.

If you want per user settings, I think ~/.kde/env/<some script> is the 
proper place.

Cheers,
FJP

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