Locale problem

Mark Shuttleworth mark at hbd.com
Wed Sep 22 23:40:48 UTC 2004


Is Skype packaged at all? I'd like it to be in universe if we're allowed 
to. Santiago, could you point James at a package of it if one exists?

Santiago Erquicia wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 20:38 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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>>On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:28:13PM -0500, Santiago Erquicia wrote:
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>>>I just installed Skype and when I try to start it, it does but all the
>>>strings appear in Chinese or some other language like that.
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>>What is Skype and where did it come from?
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>Skype is a new cross platform program (based on QT) to have voice
>conversation.  See www.skype.com
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>The program doesn't come with this distribution, but I have never had
>that problem before using Fedora.
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>>>If I run locale as my user this is what appears:
>>>LANG=POSIX
>>>LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
>>>LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
>>>LC_TIME="POSIX"
>>>LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
>>>LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
>>>LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
>>>LC_PAPER="POSIX"
>>>LC_NAME="POSIX"
>>>LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
>>>LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
>>>LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
>>>LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
>>>LC_ALL=
>>>
>>>Is that right?  How can I change this?
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>>Yes, that is correct; you should not need to change it unless you have very
>>specific requirements.
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>OK.  I guess I already changed it :) How can I go back?  Should I select
>None as the default locale?
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>>-- 
>> - mdz
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