On 01-08-2012 13:09, Arno Gaboury wrote: > 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. > Unless I forgot to read some post I guess no one stated what seems to me to be the most straightforward way of doing it. If you have your system working to your preference (before having anything in locale.conf), check the output of 'locale' and copy it to locale.conf. -- Mauro Santos
