> Gnome-terminal is unfortunately known to have troubles with non-UTF-8 > locales, see e.g. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732127.
> In your case, however, I suspect that you're doing something wrong with > your installation (because you also seem to aim for UTF-8). It's weird > to me that you use nonstandard tools to install them, rather than > localedef or locale-gen. > At the very least, what does "locale charmap" print with your locale? It > should be "UTF-8". Hi Egmont, and thanks for your attention to the bug. I certainly may have done something wrong; the online documentation about setting up a custom locale that I was able to find is confusing and sparse, and there seem to be very few tools to help an ordinary user customize a locale. I'm no locale expert; my motivation was just to use 24-hour time, YYYY- MM-DD dates, and the Metric system, even though I live in the US. I originally tried using localedef directly, but it exited with code 1, listing a slew of errors that didn't seem to have anything to do with the modest customizations that I made to the locale. Rather than spend all day at it I tried the Python script that I mentioned in the bug description, which calls localedef. The script reported success, and my simple locale-test program verified that I had installed the locale well enough to get the date and time formats I wanted. Unfortunately, once my custom locale was installed, every time I launched a GUI program from the command line I got a fontconfig() warning complaining about the locale. So I may have done something wrong, but I did succeed at getting the date and time formats I wanted. I filed the bug because I was able to launch a terminal under Ubuntu 14.10, but once I upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04, then I couldn't. $ LANG="rob_custom.UTF-8" $ locale 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 LANG=rob_custom.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US LC_CTYPE="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_TIME="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_NAME="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="rob_custom.UTF-8" LC_ALL= $ locale charmap 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 ANSI_X3.4-1968 $ Aha, the charmap isn't UTF-8 for some reason. > You could also try setting LANG=<yourlocale> and LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > simultaneously - does this work? No, that doesn't seem to work. The "locale" command shows LC_CTYPE as "rob_custom.UTF-8" afterwards. - Rob -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1448563 Title: terminal won't launch with a customized locale Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Yesterday I upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet", and I couldn't launch a gnome-terminal. Shift+Ctrl+T didn't seem to do anything, nor did typing "terminal" into the dash. Fortunately, xterm still worked. Typing "ps aux" (into an xterm terminal) revealed a few instances marked "defunct". The problem turns out to be my custom locale. (I didn't discover this myself, except by using Google.) I typed "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" into my xterm terminal, and then "gnome-terminal &", and then I had a gnome- terminal running. This bug should be fairly easy to replicate once a custom locale has been installed. I'll attach my custom locale file "rob_custom" to this bug, which could be used for testing the bug. (My locale is based on en_US.UTF-8 but uses 24-hour time, YYYY-MM-DD dates, and the metric system.) To install the custom locale, go to http://lh.2xlibre.net/help/install_locale/ and download the "install_locale.py" script. The first line of the script will need to be changed from ""#!usr/bin/env python" to "#!/usr/bin/python", and the script will need to be made executable of course. Download the "rob_custom" file from this bug, and put it in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ . Then run "install_locale.py /usr/share/i18n/locales/rob_custom", which should successfully install the locale. Installing the locale won't make it your default locale. To change the locale temporarily, change the LANG environment variable, i.e. "LANG=rob_custom.UTF-8". The attachment to this bug consists of a .zip file composed of two files: my custom locale "rob_custom", and a simple program file locale-test.c, which can be compiled with the command "gcc -o locale- test locale-test.c". The program displays the date and time strings according to the installed locale, which is useful for testing whether the locale has been changed successfully. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.14.2-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-15.15-generic 3.19.3 Uname: Linux 3.19.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sat Apr 25 15:28:38 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-24 (517 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-24 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1448563/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
