Locale problem

Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org
Fri May 26 22:05:06 CEST 2023


On Tue, 23 May 2023 15:39:43 +0200
killermoehre at gmx.net wrote:

> > I have noticed, since recent updates, that the date displayed in both Pcmanfm, and Thunar, are now in the mm-dd-yyyy format.
> > 
> > At the same time, when launching xfce4-terminal I get the messages:
> > (process:31517): Gdk-WARNING **: 08:53:43.984: locale not supported by C library
> > (process:31517): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:53:43.984: Locale not supported by C library.
> > Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> > 
> > Also when checking the locale with Draklocale I am offered:
> > English (American)
> > English (Ireland)
> > English (New Zealand)
> > English (South Africa)
> > but no English (Great Britain) in spite of having locales-en installed.
> > (Draklocale also offers me Quichua, when I do not have locales-quz installed...)
> > Any idea ?
> > Why no en_GB ? Brexit ?

> Hi Ron,
> 
> this sounds more like an operating system issue. Depending on your distribution check /etc/locale.gen and run `locale-gen` and `/etc/locale.conf` and run `localectl`.

Thank you for the reply.

Sadly my PCLinuxOS does not have either 'locale-gen`, `/etc/locale.conf` or `localectl` ;-3(
 
I'll ask on a PCLiunuxOS forum...

Cheers,
 
Ron.
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