Locale can't be changed in Warty

Martijn van de Streek martijn at foodfight.org
Fri Dec 24 09:39:54 UTC 2004


On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, thomas wrote:

> I still wonder why it isn't possible to change locale settings in Warty!

> 1) dpkg-reconfigure locales
> 2) selecting de_DE at euro ISO-8859-15
> 3) running locale-gen
> 4) test: locale

Why are you switching FROM utf-8 and TO iso-8859-15? Hoary will be UTF-8
by default, so it's better to keep it there.

> Is this not the preferred method to change locale settings in Warty?

You need to change your environment variables as well (look in
/etc/environment). Try logging out and back in again, it should work
better then.

Martijn
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