Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: > I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: > > I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why running 'locale' > as a plain user shows: > > $ locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 > > why when running it as root: > > # locale > LANG= > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" > LC_TIME="POSIX" > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > LC_MONETARY="POSIX" > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" > LC_PAPER="POSIX" > LC_NAME="POSIX" > LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" > LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" > LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" > LC_ALL= > > > I do not have set a /etc/env.d/02locale yet, so where is my plain user > locale being read from? Your plain user locale is usually read from ~/.bashrc, this can be set to en_GB by having the following lines: export LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" export LC_COLLATE="C"
This will only affect that user but if you want to define a locale globally you have to adjust the file in /etc/env.d/02locale to have the top two lines read this: LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="C" After you've done that do "env-update && source /etc/profile" for the global settings or just source ~/.bashrc for the user's settings. Hope this helps -- Cofion Christopher Swift (ianto) - christopher dot swift at linux dot com
