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).
In my /etc/env.d/02locale file, it reads as the following: LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="C" When running "locale" as either root or any other user I get: ch...@ianto-gentoo-amd ~ $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL= If you want en_GB I recommend that you change it to what I've got in my 02locale file and then run the following command as root: $ env-update && source /etc/profile This is what I've used to globally set en_GB as the default language. Hope this helps, Chris.
