Problem with locale in ubuntu 10.10

[Tom H]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Christof Buechi
<christof.buechi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> thx for answer!
>
> I used my ubuntu in the last two days with "export LC_ALL=de_CH.UTF8" in the
> .bashrc.
>
> Im not very sure, but I think I have to use de_DE as the language, and de_CH
> for regional settings.
>
> Thats the reason, why I cannot choose "Deutsch(Switzerland)" inside the
> language settings panel from gnome. only at the "regional formats"-panel.
> I tried to setup my environment with "set-language-env" and its not perfect,
> but much better then before.
>
> also the gnome-terminal uses now the utf-8 encoding, and can show special
> signs. (more about this in the first mail with the calendar output)
>
> christof at christof-T400:~$ locale
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Kann LC_ALL nicht auf die Standard-Lokale einstellen: Datei oder
> Verzeichnis nicht gefunden //translation: the same as the line above with
> LC_ALL.. "cannot set LC_all to default locale: No such file or directory"
> LANG=de_CH
> LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
> LC_CTYPE="de_CH"
> LC_NUMERIC="de_CH"
> LC_TIME="de_CH"
> LC_COLLATE="de_CH"
> LC_MONETARY="de_CH"
> LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
> LC_PAPER="de_CH"
> LC_NAME="de_CH"
> LC_ADDRESS="de_CH"
> LC_TELEPHONE="de_CH"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="de_CH"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_CH"
> LC_ALL=
>
> It looks great except LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES and LC_COLLATE.
> Does anybody know how I can set LC_CTYPE ?
>
> christof at christof-T400:~$ locale -a
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Kann LC_COLLATE nicht auf die Standard-Lokale einstellen: Datei oder
> Verzeichnis nicht gefunden //translate: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default
> locale: No such file or directory
> C
> POSIX
> de_AT.utf8
> de_BE.utf8
> de_CH.utf8
> de_DE.utf8
> de_LI.utf8
> de_LU.utf8
> en_US.utf8

By default, "/etc/default/locale" has "LANG="..." but you can define
the other variables there too.

Check "/etc/environment" too, just in case.

If setting LC_CTYPE and LC_COLLATE in "/etc/default/locale" doesn't
fix your problem, you could try re-generating your failing CH locale
with "localedef -i de_CH -f UTF-8 de_CH.UTF-8" or even re-installing
"locales" and then re-generating de_CH.UTF-8.