Hello all,

I'm having trouble with my locale definitions (at least). I'm on Anti-x 13.1. I wanted to upgrade something, opened up Debian's unstable repo, then tried to get more from there to fix it. All in all, didn't work out so well and it was probably dumb.

Point is, I was hoping I could get some help with the issue I'm seeing now. I can't open Roxterm in X. When I try to open it from console, it shows me a GTK error message talking about locales.

When I run "locale" I get:
Notably, "LANGUAGE" and "LC_ALL" had empty strings as values in the output of locale. I tried changing these with "export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"", but the change seems superficial at best.

When I run locale -a I get:
I can't find the package glibc-locale, the commands dpkg-reconfigure locales or locale-gen. /etc/default/locale already has just the line "LANG=en_US.UTF-8".

As far as I can tell I need to do something with localedef, but I'm not sure how to use it. It's "localedef -c -f [somefile] -i [somefile]"? The man page mentions it will look in the default directory and the current one. Most of the defaults have "usr/share/I18N" which doesn't exist on my system. Another default does say "user/bin/locale", which does exist. I have a "usr/share/locale" as well, but I'm not sure what files in there I might need to be using.

Any guidance, troubleshooting, etc here?

2 things: you write you installed "something" - what exactly?
you write "the change seems superficial at best" - how exactly? so you did affect a change?
btw, i don't think "C.UTF-8" is a valid locale?
on my system it looks like this:

Thanks for the response!

Something, I'm not too sure. So, I started off wanting an up to date version of Midori, so I opened up Unstable to get Midori updated + its dependencies. This was already ill-advised, I'm sure. But I no doubt made it worse when that didn't work well, so I opened Unstable back up and did and apt-get dist upgrade. I don't remember if I was getting this specific error before that. Maybe I could go back and look for log files to see what got installed with Midori.

The change I mentioned; They'll show when I run locale as "LC_Whatever=en_US.utf-8" (without the quotes around the value that all the others have). Even when that change is made though, I get those same three errors at the top of either locale command. The change also disappeared after a restart.

The C.UTF-8 does seem a bit suspect. It also seems like I should have one listed with en_ in the name...

So, I mentioned that dpkg-reconfigure command (recommended in a thread similar to this one) was not found, and I had assumed that wasn't an option for me. I was missing the fact that sbin and /usr/sbin aren't on my path for whatever reason (shouldn't they normally be?).

So I ran dpkg-reconfigure locales:
Don't know why this isn't installed, seems important? But I go ahead and get it anyway. apt-get install locales

LANGUAGE and LC_ALL still appear unset, but I'm not getting error messages about them when I run a bunch of stuff. And now locale -a lists a whole host of things that sound like locales. There are still other problems with my system, and I don't think the locale thing was really the issue. But for this question, I think I can call it solved at the moment.

Thanks again for the response!

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