F11: UTF-8 Locale issue

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sun Sep 13 15:27:28 UTC 2009


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 13 September 2009 07:11:24 Tim wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 16:28 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>     
>>> Can someone direct me how to set a system-wide
>>> UTF-8 locales?
>>>       
>> That's the default (using UTF-8 encoding for most, if not all, locales).
>> What do you get if you type the "locale" command into a terminal?
>>
>> [tim at suspishus ~]$ locale
>> LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
>> LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_ALL=
>>
>>     
> Hmm - on install I marked everything as English-British.  system-config-
> language says that my language is English|-British, but the 'locale' command 
> marks everything as en_US.  Any ideas?
>
> Anne
>   
The only time I've ever seen that happen is when I've logged in from the
console and language drop down box in the lower left was set to English
(United States) and I failed to notice. 

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