On 02/25/12 at 06:57pm, Mantas M. wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 07:10:51AM -0800, Tim Stella wrote: > > I have locales set correctly in /etc/locale.gen: > > > > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > > en_US ISO-8859-1 > > Have these locales been generated? After editing locale.gen, you have to run `locale-gen` as root. > > > and according to 'locale', all my variables seem to be in order: > > > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > [...] > > Where are these locale variables set? > > If they are in your `.bashrc`, it could be that your terminals do not have the proper variables -- for example, > > awesome LANG="" > └── xterm LANG="" - expects ISO-8859-1 > └── bash LANG="en_US.UTF-8" - emits UTF-8 > └── mc LANG="en_US.UTF-8" - emits UTF-8 > > -- causing the terminal to expect a different charset than the one `mc` uses. > > You can check using ` tr "\0" "\n" < /proc/$PPID/environ ` in a new terminal (where $PPID should expand to the PID of xterm/sakura/whatever). > > -- > Mantas M. <grawity@xxxxxxxxx> Thank you! After checking the environs of the different processes, it seems all of them had LANG= -- so a quick reboot fixed it. I guess after I generated the locales, I needed to relog at least (but did a restart just to be sure.) All working now! Thank you. Tim
