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Setting the correct locale

Posted by  on 15 January 2008, 9:16 pm

This one has caused my some head aches; I wanted to use ISO-8859-1(5) but no matter what I did, GNOME Terminal would select ANSI_X3.4-1968 as character encoding (screwing up everything related to danish characters).

The solution:

  1. Create or edit the file

    /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local

    en_DK ISO-8859-15

  2. Regenerate locales:

    $ sudo locale-gen --purge
    Generating locales...
      en_AU.UTF-8... done
      en_BW.UTF-8... done
      en_CA.UTF-8... done
      en_DK.ISO-8859-15... done
      en_DK.UTF-8... done
      en_GB.UTF-8... done
      en_HK.UTF-8... done
      en_IE.UTF-8... done
      en_IN.UTF-8... done
      en_NZ.UTF-8... done
      en_PH.UTF-8... done
      en_SG.UTF-8... done
      en_US.UTF-8... done
      en_ZA.UTF-8... done
      en_ZW.UTF-8... done
    Generation complete.

  3. Log out and from GDM select language “English (Denmark)” and answer yes

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2 Comments

  1. Ole says:
    August 3, 2009 at 12:21

    Awesome advice. You rock!

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