[Techtalk] Quick question, I hope?

[Gebhard Dettmar]

On Thursday 20 December 2007 15:47, Wim De Smet wrote:
> [...] If it doesn't, try setting LC_ALL to 'C' so
> do export LC_ALL=C in a console, before starting a program from that
> console, you might also have to set LANG. On newer versions of Debian
> the locale gets written to /etc/environment I think. If you have that
> you could try changing it there as well (this is what dpkg-reconfigure
> should be doing).
>
Exactly. IMHO creating /etc/environment with
export LANG=C
should be sufficient, although unnecessary if your system was setup with 
LANG=C (you should create this file if you want e.g. LANG=de_DE for german. 
If I understood my debian book right you can write in this file the 
environments which are not set by the shell when starting an X-Session with a 
display manager. The X-session doesn't set certain environments which were 
set by the shell if you logged in via 'login', i.e. the shell, instead of a 
display manager
Regards gebhard