locale help please

[Marco]

Thilo Six wrote:

> basically Ubuntu supports utf-8

Isn't it more efficient to use iso-8859-15 if I don't need exotic language
characters?

> you can check if your locale is avaiable on your system by:
> $ locale -a

de_AT at euro is there.
> 
> list all locales that ubuntu support:
> $ less /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED

de_AT at euro is there.
> 
> If you like to use your own locales you probably have to create it first:
> $ cat /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local

Here de_AT at euro is missing!
But I have it in /var/lib/locales/supported.d/de. That should have the same
effect, doesn't it?

> so you entrance here would be:
> 
> $ grep de_AT /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
> de_AT.UTF-8 UTF-8
> de_AT ISO-8859-1
> de_AT at euro ISO-8859-15
> 
> add these lines to /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local (this file must be
> created first)

Why do I need more than de_AT at euro ISO-8859-15 there?
> 
> then
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

No new files created. All files already were up-to-date.
> 
> should work then (You may need to reboot, i am not sure about this)

Nothing changed.

/m