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Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8

From Ted Baker <debianbaker@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8
Date 2020-02-28 22:20 +0100
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So C.UTF-8 in itself does not count as a valid locale, and I have to add
something like en_US.UTF-8?

The problem seems to show up only in gnome though. In console mode, things
are fine without en_US.UTF-8.

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 9:52 AM john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> wrote:

> On 2/28/2020 3:34 PM, Ted Baker wrote:
> >>
> >> You should use 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'.
> >>
> >
> >  I actually tried `sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales`, but C.UTF-8 is not
> even
>
> $ DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text dpkg-reconfigure locales
> Configuring locales
> -------------------
>
> Locales are a framework to switch between multiple languages and allow
> users to
> use their language, country, characters, collation order, etc.
>
> Please choose which locales to generate. UTF-8 locales should be chosen by
> default, particularly for new installations. Other character sets may be
> useful
> for backwards compatibility with older systems and software.
>
>   1. All locales                      249. gl_ES ISO-8859-1
>   2. aa_DJ ISO-8859-1                 250. gl_ES.UTF-8 UTF-8
>   3. aa_DJ.UTF-8 UTF-8                251. gl_ES@euro ISO-8859-15
>   248. gez_ET@abegede UTF-8           496. zu_ZA.UTF-8 UTF-8
>
> (Enter the items you want to select, separated by spaces.)
>
> Locales to be generated: 2
>
>
> Many packages in Debian use locales to display text in the correct
> language for
> the user. You can choose a default locale for the system from the generated
> locales.
>
> This will select the default language for the entire system. If this
> system is a
> multi-user system where not all users are able to speak the default
> language,
> they will experience difficulties.
>
>   1. None  2. C.UTF-8  3. aa_DJ
>
> Default locale for the system environment:
>
>
>
> In other words, one language needs to be selected in order to be able to
> choose 'none' (use none if you access the host through SSH) or 'C.UTF-8.
>
> > on the list, so I can only remove en_US.UTF-8 there. Then I did `sudo
> > update-locale LANG=C.UTF-8`. As far as I know, these steps basically
> > modifies /etc/locale.gen, runs locale-gen, and modifies
> /etc/default/locale.
> >
>
> See, (1).
>
> 1)  https://wiki.debian.org/Locale
>
>
> P.S.
>
> The frontend can be ommited.
>
> --
> John Doe
>
>

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set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Ted Baker <debianbaker@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 02:10 +0100
  Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-02-28 07:10 +0100
    Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-02-28 14:20 +0100
      Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Ted Baker <debianbaker@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 15:30 +0100
        Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-02-28 15:40 +0100
          Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-02-28 16:30 +0100
          Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-02-28 17:10 +0100
            Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-02-28 18:40 +0100
              Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-02-28 19:00 +0100
                Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-02-28 20:50 +0100
          Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-02-28 17:10 +0100
          Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Ted Baker <debianbaker@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 17:30 +0100
            Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-02-28 17:40 +0100
            Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-02-28 21:00 +0100
              Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-02-28 21:00 +0100
              Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Shanbin Zhao <shanbin@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 21:30 +0100
  Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-02-28 07:10 +0100
    Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Ted Baker <debianbaker@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 15:40 +0100
      Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-02-28 16:00 +0100
        Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Ted Baker <debianbaker@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 22:20 +0100
          Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-02-28 22:30 +0100
            Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Ted Baker <debianbaker@gmail.com> - 2020-02-28 22:50 +0100
              Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2020-02-28 23:20 +0100
                Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-02-29 03:30 +0100
                Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-03-02 14:50 +0100
                Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-03-02 19:20 +0100
                Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-03-03 09:20 +0100

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