Fixing locales: Difference between revisions

So, after reading a zillion webpages, I finally punted and just appended to my <code>~/.bashrc</code> file and man pages worked again

export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

export LANGUAGE="en_US.UTF-8"

export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

I ended up editing <code>/var/lib/locales/supported.d/local</code>

then I did a

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

which updated my system

There are a dizzying number of files, programs and settings involved in locale; and worse -- there are differences between distributions on what commands work, how they work; and where the configurations are stored.

I suggest that you start off with

man:/locale-gen

to get an idea of what files are involved in your distribution.

All the files in <code>/var/lib/belocs</code>

will get updated when you run

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

== See also ==

== Hack ==

Setting environment variables prior to launching an application is one way to work around this problem, but obviously does not solve it on a system-wise basis.  I used this command in KMenu to get around the fact that the variable ''was'' set system-wide, but didn't get picked up in the application environment:

env LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8' && k3b %U

# or the simpler

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 k3b %U

and appended to an existing bug report with the workaround information

(note that double quotes do not work in the KMenu environment.)