locale not supported by Xlib

[Roberto Nunnari]

Hello again.

Nobody has answered yet to the email I posted yesterday..
maybe the gurus have missed it.. so here it comes again.

Please, help.

Thank you.


Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> Hello everybody.
> 
> I'm evaluating Ubuntu 6.06.1 for installing on our clients
> (about 35 hosts). Up to now, Ubuntu is in my opinion the best
> linux distribution I ever tried.
> 
> Unfortunately, I hit a problem I cannot seam to be able to solve.
> 
> I noticed the problem first while trying to install Maple 10. The
> installation program dies with an error 'locale not supported by Xlib'.
> 
> So, I tried to launch gedit, and guess what? Gedit works, but in the
> shell I find the same message as above (cut and paste follows).
> 
> I probably broke something while installing other software by
> hand (oracle, matlab, eagle, etc..).
> 
> I tried to reinstall some locales, to change the language,
> reinstall xorg, but without success.. the messages are still there.
> 
> here's some cut and paste
> **************************
> robi at pcm4185:~$ gedit
> (gedit:5039): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib
> (gedit:5039): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers
> 
> robi at pcm4185:~$ locale
> LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=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=
> 
> 
> robi at pcm4185:~$ uname -rms
> Linux 2.6.15-27-386 i686
> **************************
> 
> I hope somebody can help me out.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> --
> Roberto
> 
> 


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