On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:08:01PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > Thank you both for your help. > > > You could try cleaning things up a bit with 'localepurge' > > Looking at the package description, this doesn't seem like a good idea. And > anyway, my problem isn't that I have too many locales. It seems to be a > font problem. > > > $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales > > Yes, I have tried this. It resets /etc/locale.gen. > > > $ cat /etc/default/locale > > LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > > $ cat /etc/default/locale > # File generated by update-locale > LANG=en_US
So your system default is not UTF-8 locale. > I get the same result if it's LANG=en_US.UTF-8. Did you reboot? This is a file which set default locale. (I know we do not need to reboot to fix this ... but this is simpler to explain.) > > $ env |egrep "(^LC|LANG)" > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > $ env |egrep "(^LC|LANG)" > LANG=en_US Now your system is acting as non-UTF-8 locale now. > > $ cat ~/.dmrc > > [Desktop] > > Session=gnome > > $ cat ~/.dmrc > [Desktop] > Session=default > > And note that I have > > $ locale > LANG=en_US > LC_CTYPE="en_US" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US" > LC_TIME="en_US" > LC_COLLATE="en_US" > LC_MONETARY="en_US" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US" > LC_PAPER="en_US" > LC_NAME="en_US" > LC_ADDRESS="en_US" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" > LC_ALL= non-UTF-8 > $ locale -a > C > en_US > en_US.iso88591 > en_US.utf8 Now you have capability to set to UTF-8 > POSIX > > $ egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/locale.gen > en_US UTF-8 > en_US.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > All of this is as it's supposed to be. I try switching between en_US and > en_US.UTF-8, but it doesn't help. I still see characters such as hyphens > (-), boldface pipes, and single quotes rendered as รข (circumflex-a) in my > terminal windows. If I set LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, then the characters are > shown correctly. > > I think this is a font problem, but I just don't know how to diagnose it. No. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
