Help me with locale please

coralsaw · 12-21-2005, 03:00 AM

Here's what I want to do:

All console messages to be displayed in English
All X/KDE/Gnome messages to be displayed in Greek

My current locale is:

Quote:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Available locales are:

Quote:

en_US.UTF-8
el_GR.UTF-8

My /etc/environment file says:

Quote:

LANGUAGE="en_US:el_GR:el:en_GB:en"
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf
# Do not edit within this region if you want your changes to be preserved
# by debconf. Instead, make changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
# FOR localeconf" line, and/or after the "### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR
# localeconf" line.
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
### END DEBCONF SECTION FOR localeconf

I've tried localeconf, setlocale, reading all threads on the subject, still all the console messages are in Greek. Which is a bit of a pain.

Any idea what I need to change?

TiA

/coralsaw

binary · 12-21-2005, 04:44 AM

You maybe try:
#env=C
#dpkg-reconfigure locales

and then, set the locale again.

coralsaw · 12-21-2005, 07:07 AM

Thx, unfortunately no change...

/coralsaw

Dead Parrot · 12-21-2005, 12:28 PM

Did you unselect el_GR in "dpkg-reconfigure locales"? Also, try "dpkg-reconfigure console-data".

coralsaw · 12-23-2005, 07:42 AM

If I unselect el_GR, then I'd most probably not be able to have greek characters in console, and perhaps in X. Am I correct?

If so, that's not what I want. I just want all system and app messages to be in English, not Greek.

/coralsaw

Dead Parrot · 12-23-2005, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Here's what I want to do:

1. All console messages to be displayed in English
2. All X/KDE/Gnome messages to be displayed in Greek

KDE has it's own locale settings that you can configure in KDE's Control Center. GNOME uses your system's general locale settings. You can create a special file that is read every time you start an X session (for example, /etc/X11/Xsession.d/startup) and define (export LC_MESSAGES="el_GR") some locale settings for all your X sessions there.

I've never tried anything like that myself so I cannot say for sure if it will actually work.

gauri · 12-23-2005, 12:23 PM

Hi all,

I am facing the problem with locale. My locale is a follows:

LANG=en_IN

LC_CTYPE="en_IN"

LC_NUMERIC="en_IN"

LC_TIME="en_IN"

LC_COLLATE="en_IN"

LC_MONETARY="en_IN"

LC_MESSAGES="en_IN"

LC_PAPER="en_IN"

LC_NAME="en_IN"

LC_ADDRESS="en_IN"

LC_TELEPHONE="en_IN"

LC_MEASUREMENT="en_IN"

LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_IN"

LC_ALL=
=============

becaues of that i am unable to sed command on few of the lines which has some special charater in another language other than english.

I am giving an example of my problem as:

I am unable replace \ with \\ in the floowoing lines:

*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:\x82\xcd\x82\xa2]^M
*%EFILocal [invisible_no:\x82\xa2\x82\xa2\x82\xa6]^M
^M
*%EFILocal [has disk raster?_yes:\x82\xcd\x82\xa2]^M
*%EFILocal [has disk raster?_no:\x82\xa2\x82\xa2\x82\xa6]^M
^M

my sed command is sed -e 's_\\_\\\\_g'. also if i cat on these lines it doesnt show me \x82 or \xcd etc.

Regards
Gauri