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Half-a-bagel

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Registered: 2010-04-05

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[SOLVED]Locale issue

Hello everyone!

I got stuck with setting the locale. Default one is en_GB and I want to change it to ru_RU. I've seen already the topic
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … -language/
but it didn't work for me .

What I did:

• In /etc/default/locale I changed LANG="en_US.UTF-8" to LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"

• Once I did it and rebooted my machine, I tried locale command, but it showed me something different from what I expected
  LANG=C and other similar stuff.

• Manual setting LC_ALL and LANG variables with export was not the right decision.

• sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales still gave me something like

en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_IN UTF-8... up-to-date
en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_NG UTF-8... up-to-date
en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date

• And finally I tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure localepurge, selected only ru_RU.UTF-8, but it didn't help either

Could someone guide me and help me to set ru_RU.UTF-8 locale for both console and XServer?
I suspect not all locales are installed in the system. How can I make sure all appropriate locales installed in the system?

Last edited by Half-a-bagel (2010-04-06 10:59:32)

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Re: [SOLVED]Locale issue

When you did  sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
did you put a * in front of ru_RU? Because it is not generated yet. You have to scroll through the list and check the ru_RU with the spacebar.

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Half-a-bagel

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Registered: 2010-04-05

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED]Locale issue

When you did  sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
did you put a * in front of ru_RU? Because it is not generated yet. You have to scroll through the list and check the ru_RU with the spacebar.

When I did and do now sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales, I could only watch a list of en_* locales printed to the console.
But when I did sudo dpkg-reconfigure localepurge, yes, I checked ru and ru_RU.UTF-8

Last edited by Half-a-bagel (2010-04-06 10:39:31)

Half-a-bagel

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Registered: 2010-04-05

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED]Locale issue

Finally, I've found a solution:

sudo locale-gen ru_RU.UTF-8
sudo gedit /etc/default/locale, edit content to LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
sudo reboot

Last edited by Half-a-bagel (2010-04-07 06:01:14)