$LANG Variable

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Tue Sep 20 00:41:46 CDT 2005


Hi Lukas!

Lukas Sabota [2005-09-18 13:52 -0400]:
> On most of all my programs, I am getting this warning:
> Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
> My LANG variable is set to en_US.  Is that what it is supposed to be?  

Not *quite*, it should be en_US.UTF-8, but en_US should work, too.

> Should the LANG variable be set to C?

No, that would not make sense. Please give us the output of

  locale -a

and 

  locale

Martin

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