On 01/08/12||14:46, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara > <jesse.jaara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Also you can probably disable en_US completely. Most applications use > > english as the build in locale (locale C), so there is no need to enable > > it, as faar as I have understood. > > This is right, but the "C" locale uses US-ASCII, not UTF-8 (although > Debian has "C.UTF-8"). > > So I would /not/ recommend setting "C" as $LANG. (Or as anything else, > except $LC_COLLATE). > > -- > Mantas Mikulėnas OK, thnak you for your answer. I thought I had to write more lines in locale.conf because of all my locale.gen. So I sticked to basic : LANG=en_US.UTF8 LC_COLLATE=C As suggested, I commented in locale.gen all ISO files, except the one with the euro symbol, and decided to let english. Regards.