On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:38 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Mick writes: > > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads > > > > You might want to read this and set up your locales properly. > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml > > Thanks Bill, that's where I started, but I am getting confused with the way > my > system and various terminals respond to the suggested files/settings. > > The only way to see the locales I entered in /etc/env.d/02locale is by > launching a terminal (aterm, xterm, urxvt) and 'su -' to root. In all other > cases US locales seem to take over (although the LANG setting appears to be > working).
Could it be your desktop overiding the basics? - gnome or kde perhaps? Also check the login manager (I use GDM and there is a language setting for the login there.) BillK
