changing locale

gamor · 08-08-2005, 09:10 AM

HI all,
When I got my laptop, linux was already installed. It was all installed in French. My problem is that I was to change locale or just add to them. I need to have eng_us

When I run some commands i get:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_PAPER = "fr_BE",
LC_ADDRESS = "fr_BE",
LC_MONETARY = "fr_BE",
LC_SOURCED = "1",
LC_NUMERIC = "fr_BE",
LC_TELEPHONE = "fr_BE",
LC_MESSAGES = "en_US",
LC_COLLATE = "en_US",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "fr_BE",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "fr_BE",
LC_CTYPE = "en_US",
LC_TIME = "en_US",
LC_NAME = "fr_BE",
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.

I checked for the locale installed and I have:
C
CP1251
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-10
ISO-8859-13
ISO-8859-14
ISO-8859-15
ISO-8859-2
ISO-8859-3
ISO-8859-4
ISO-8859-5
ISO-8859-7
ISO-8859-9
KOI8-R
KOI8-U
POSIX
UTF-8
fr
fr_BE
fr_BE.ISO-8859-1
fr_BE.ISO-8859-15
fr_BE.UTF-8
fr_CA
fr_CA.ISO-8859-1
fr_CA.ISO-8859-15
fr_CA.UTF-8
fr_CH
fr_CH.ISO-8859-1
fr_CH.ISO-8859-15
fr_CH.UTF-8
fr_FR
fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
fr_FR.ISO-8859-15
fr_FR.UTF-8
fr_LU
fr_LU.ISO-8859-1
fr_LU.ISO-8859-15
fr_LU.UTF-8
français
french

Also, Whenever I open a console I get:
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

Just so you know, I have mandrake 10.1 installed kde3.2.
I dont know how to change locale or add to it. It should be possible. If so, would you let me know how.

Thanks,
Ghita

gamor · 08-08-2005, 05:01 PM

Anyone know how to fix the locale problem. Any hints ?
Your help would be appreciated

mohit dhawan · 08-08-2005, 08:12 PM

jus try this(prototype for setlocale sys call)

include<locale.h>
char setlocale(int category,const char* locale);

category will be whtever u wanted; say LC_ALL
locale is either C , POSIX ,en_US

hope i understood wht u wanted

bye

gamor · 08-09-2005, 04:05 AM

Sorry but where am I supposed to do this? Where is the setlocale supposed to be?
Just to make sure what you are telling me to do is what I need. In a simpler way, I need en_US , en_US.UTF8 to be included in locale. When I do locale -a, the encodings that show are all for French.
thanks again