From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 22:46:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA64016A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:46:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from connectmail.carleton.ca (connectmail.carleton.ca [134.117.2.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B32843D46 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:46:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.1.105] ([134.117.145.25]) by connectmail.carleton.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTPSA id <0IBZ00AZR5Y0YQ@connectmail.carleton.ca> for freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:46:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:49:48 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger In-reply-to: <1108507388.1529.1.camel@localhost> To: Trey Sizemore Message-id: <42127C8C.1030805@FreeBSD.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-ca, en-gb, en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-CA; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Thunderbird/1.0 OMFG PANTS References: <20050214183838.704c2e4c@localhost.localdomain> <1108447939.91053.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1108507388.1529.1.camel@localhost> cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issues with incorrect locale settings X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:46:49 -0000 Trey Sizemore wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 01:12 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >>On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 18:38 -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: >> >>>It would appear that my locale settings are defaulting back to C, at >>>least for gnome apps. I log in using GDM and set my locale to en _US but >>>my gnome/gtk apps (specifically mailers like sylpheed and evolution) >>>default to C when sorting my mail folders (case sensitive) or presenting >>>date formats for the current locale. >>> >>>Here's my locale output >>> >>>trey@salamander~> locale >>>LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >>>LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" >>>LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" >>>LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" >>>LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" >>>LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" >>>LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" >>>LC_ALL= >>> >>>It appears that the entries presented with quotes (COLLATE) is telling >>>me there's a problem. >> >>What problem? >> >> >>>How can I fix this? It's driving me crazy. >> >>I usually just set LANG to en_US.ISO8859-1 or en_US.UTF-8 (I never >>bother with the other LC_* variables). However, GNOME's default >>language is en_US, so you really don't notice much of a difference >>except when dealing with extended 8-bit Latin characters. >> >>Joe >> > > My question is with my locale settings set as above, > why are my gnome apps still using the C locale when sorting mail > folders (case sensitive) and displaying dates for the current locale? > How can I change the locale settings to a reasonable US_en setting if > the above is not working? Those *are* the en_US settings. There are no en_US settings separate from anything specified in the C locale. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx