Issues with incorrect locale settings

[Trey Sizemore]

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?

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Cheers,
Trey
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