Problem with locale in ubuntu 10.10

[Tom H]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:39 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/03/2011 02:57 PM, Christof Buechi wrote:
>>
>> (Its the first time i write on this list - I'm sorry about mistakes)
>>
>> I've got a big problem with language settings. I google a lot, but cannot
>> find the perfect solution. I know there are a lot of results of this topic..
>> I tried something with "locale -a", "dpkg-reconfigure locale" and also with
>> "export LC_ALL="de_CH.utf8"".
>> I haven't got a guess why i cannot solve this problem.
>>
>> Maybe somebody have some deeper experience with this problem, and can help
>> me a little bit ?
> ...
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> locale (console)
>> LANG=de_DE
>> LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
> ...
>> LC_ALL=de_CH.utf8
>
> If you are using multiple language/region settings (de_DE & de_CH) then
> you should unset LC_ALL. Meaning that LC_ALL should be:
>
> LC_ALL=
>
> rather than LC_ALL=de_CH.utf8.

I'd missed that! What's strange though is that apt-get thinks that it's not set.