On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 05:25:52PM +0100, John wrote: > Whenever I run emacs on my 64bit Debian (Jessie) machine via ssh I see > > (process:20589): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. > Using the fallback 'C' locale. > > root@snout:~# printenv (edited) > > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > XTERM_LOCALE=C > XTERM_VERSION=XTerm(312) > LANGUAGE=en_GB:en > LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > > Is this just another annoyance or can it be stopped?
On the Debian system, as root, run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and make sure you select the en_GB.utf8 locale as one of the locales to generate. (As well as any others that you or other users may use in the future.)