Re: locales

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Sam Halliday <sam neutrino phy uct ac za> writes:

> > Well, knowing the exact herror message would help; my guess
> > is that the error mssage you are getting is indicating that
> > the value of your "LANG" environment variable is a locale not
> > supported by your C library (or maybe not supported by your
> > Xlib.) 
> the warning is;
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> 
> i don't have LANG set, should i just set it
> export LANG=en_GB
> in my .bash_profile?
> 
> what is it defaulted to? i will only ever use C, en, or en_GB of which i
> have all for each program i have installed.

Well, how it is supposed to be set depends both on your distribution
and your desktop environment. Something, however, is setting it to an
invalid value ... my guess is "en" (not typically a valid locale
name), so really the right thing to do is to fix whatever that is.

(Various GDM configurations have had an "English" language
selection that was mapped to "en", so if you are using
GDM you might want to try selecting "British English" (?) on
login.)

Regards,
                                        Owen