locales

raven · 10-30-2002, 11:46 AM

hello

what can be the cause, that i get this error message everytime a program starts?

Warning: locale not supported by C library.

thanks

raven

Mara · 10-30-2002, 12:38 PM

Do you have locales instelled?

raven · 10-30-2002, 12:55 PM

oh well...

if the locales are installed with

make localedata/install-locales

in the glibc source tree, then yes, otherwise, I have no clue...

raven

Mara · 11-01-2002, 11:03 AM

Where is it installed to? Is the right directory in PATH/LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

raven · 11-01-2002, 11:38 AM

you mean, the localaes must be installad somewhere in PATH od LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

cos then I am not that sure, that this is so...

raven

wonderpun · 11-01-2002, 01:20 PM

Well, actually I had the same problem and I sorted it out by installing glibc-i18n-something-here. If you this already installed then do a:
echo $PATH
to see were you're path is and then look if the glibc-i18n package is installed in your path. Good luck!

Mara · 11-01-2002, 02:47 PM

The binary should go to a directory in PATH, libraries to a directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

wonderpun · 11-01-2002, 04:25 PM

Yeah, thanks for the fix Mara

raven · 11-02-2002, 08:54 AM

well, it seems, that I dont have glibc-i18n-anything at all...

but I have the locales installed in /usr/local/share/locale.

the installation into that path occured with the command mentioned above.

thanks anyway

raven

Mara · 11-02-2002, 10:53 AM

I gues programs try to look into /usr/share/locales. Try to make a symlink.

raven · 11-03-2002, 09:16 AM

well, it doesnt seem to work. i made a link /usr/share/locales and also a link /usr/share/locale.

something I noticed: in a gtk program on some fields (text fields) I can use äöü and in some other fields (ex: subject line) I cant. so in the same program, in the same windoe, at two different places, I can and I cant use äöü.

this i kinda strange to me.

any other ideas?

thanks anyway

raven

wonderpun · 11-03-2002, 11:21 AM

Well, I told you. Since I know russian very well and use it in a lot of places I did localise my system to russian. And I had the same problem. The programs had strange letters and I had the same errors. But then I installed glibc-i18n package and everything then became fine. The letters were russian and there were no more errors. So I just suggest you find a glibc-i18n package for your distribution(100% sure it'll be on the ftp of your distribution) and install it. Good luck!

raven · 11-03-2002, 11:41 AM

ok. thanks.

raven

Mara · 11-03-2002, 12:03 PM

If you're using new GNOME, libunicode may be useful, too.

raven · 11-03-2002, 12:28 PM

well, stuff work for me with every kde program. all gtk progs have the problem described above.

thanks

raven