Issues with incorrect locale settings

[Adam Weinberger]

Trey Sizemore wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 01:12 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
>>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
>>
> 
> My question is with my locale settings set as above,
> why are my gnome apps still using the C locale when sorting mail
> folders (case sensitive) and displaying dates for the current locale?
> How can I change the locale settings to a reasonable US_en setting if
> the above is not working?

Those *are* the en_US settings. There are no en_US settings separate 
from anything specified in the C locale.

# Adam


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