Package: locales Version: 2.3.5-6 Severity: normal Something odd seems to have happened to my locales, today. Although I didn't ask for it, the LC settings have changed to POSIX:
diz $ locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= which confuses some apps, e.g. Firebird/Thunderbird (non-Debian) since they're not expecting it. In addition, starting X via gdm gives me the addition of LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8, which I also didn't ask for: locale LANG= LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= Have I mucked something up somewhere without realising it? thanks much. cheers, calum. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.13 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages locales depends on: ii debconf 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 [glibc-2.3.5-3] 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an locales recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * locales/default_environment_locale: en_GB.UTF-8 * locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]