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alex.e.c 07-09-2004 04:32 AM
Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library
 
Each time I try and run an application on my Debian install after a dist upgrade it complains about the language being all wrong. Has anyone else bumped into this problem? It currently means that I cannot run certain programs (ones that rely on gtk).

Code:
(process:1935): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale. 

(straw:1935): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Traceback (most recent call last):  File "/usr/bin/straw", line 17, in ?    s = straw.Main()  File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/Main.py", line 41, in __init__    self._setlocale()  File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/Main.py", line 105, in _setlocale    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/locale.py", line 381, in setlocale    return _setlocale(category, locale) locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

greenleaf 12-06-2006 10:37 AM
locale not supported by C library
 
Hi -

I've just rebuilt my glibc (don't try that unless you are a bit mad - its very easy to get it wrong and end up with an unusable system). I needed the new posix compliant threading stuff. But the point is that after I did that I ran into very similar problems to the one you reported. The Google located suggestions of altering environment variables didn't help at all. But at last I stumbled across localedef, which is a command line function for compiling the locale definition files. In my case what I needed was
localedef -c -f iso885915 -i en_GB en_GB.iso885915
run as super-user.

That has done the trick for me. I'm not quite sure whether its persistent, because I haven't rebooted the system. But one sure sign is that if you run
locale
or
locale -a
and it moans, then there is something wrong.
Well locale works fine now, and the Gtk warnings have stopped.

I hope that helps someone else.

Greenleaf

TheLateJC 07-04-2008 07:54 AM
And still good value after all these years
 
Thanks champ, this sorted a locale annoyance I'd been having on Ubuntu...

localedef -c -f iso88591 -i en_US en_US.ISO-8859-1

louisgag 04-13-2011 12:29 PM
On some distributions this simpler command might also help,

Code:
dpkg-reconfigure locales

figure002 06-21-2011 06:59 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by louisgag (Post 4323563)
On some distributions this simpler command might also help,

Code:
dpkg-reconfigure locales
Thank you for that command. I was facing the same issue after generating a lot of locale definition files with locale-gen (I did Ctrl-C a few times which probably resulted in corrupted locale definition files). That 'dpkg-reconfigure' command recompiled all the locales I had previously compiled which solved the problem. :D

erikalm 08-08-2014 01:47 PM
Impossible locale combo?
 
Hello,

I had this problem because my system tried to run with the locale "sv_US".

Once I installed Swedish (sv) language support completely I got things running.

Check by running "locale" in the command prompt. The locales set there should be something possible (unlike sv_US...)

/E

Arcosanti 08-11-2014 02:55 PM
I have this problem under Slackware 13.37. It's more of an annoyance as the lib falls back to the C locale method. Apparently the Locale stuff never got installed correctly. The environment varibles have no effect.


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