Issues with incorrect locale settings

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 18:38 -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> It would appear that my locale settings are defaulting back to C, at
> least for gnome apps. I log in using GDM and set my locale to en _US but
> my gnome/gtk apps (specifically mailers like sylpheed and evolution)
> default to C when sorting my mail folders (case sensitive) or presenting
> date formats for the current locale.
> 
> Here's my locale output
> 
> trey at salamander~> locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> It appears that the entries presented with quotes (COLLATE) is telling
> me there's a problem.

What problem?

> 
> How can I fix this? It's driving me crazy.

I usually just set LANG to en_US.ISO8859-1 or en_US.UTF-8 (I never
bother with the other LC_* variables).  However, GNOME's default
language is en_US, so you really don't notice much of a difference
except when dealing with extended 8-bit Latin characters.

Joe

> 
> Thanks.
> 
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