Oops, I think your problem goes out if you install the locales-all package
I forgot to ask: $ dpkg -l locales* If you didn't install locales-all package or generate fr_CA.UTF-8 locale data manually by running the following $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales You get English ... didn't I mention this ... Yes: For fine details of the locale configuration, see Section 8.4, “The locale”. You should have clicked there to read Section 8.4. But not so obvious ... Now I know ... Ububtu and Old Debian's locales are like locales-all on recent Debian. Current Debian's locales are small and requires user to configure it manually while locales-all is huge and pre-confugured Maybe it is good idea to guide people to the locales-all package On Fri, 2020-07-24 at 09:38 -0400, Hank Knox wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to respond to this. > > I was reading the Debian Reference shortly after a clean install of > bullseye. (It's a very useful document, BTW, thanks for doing it.) > However I have been running Debian for years and migrated some > config > files over from a previous installation so perhaps my setup does not > reflect the usual defaults. > > Here is the info you asked for: > > hank@SunVillage:~$ locale > LANG=en_CA.utf8 > LANGUAGE= > LC_CTYPE="en_CA.utf8" > LC_NUMERIC=en_CA.UTF-8 > LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 > LC_COLLATE="en_CA.utf8" > LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8 > LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.utf8" > LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8 > LC_NAME=en_CA.UTF-8 > LC_ADDRESS=en_CA.UTF-8 > LC_TELEPHONE=en_CA.UTF-8 > LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 > LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_CA.UTF-8 > LC_ALL= > > hank@SunVillage:~$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP='XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP' > XFCE=XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP > > I am not sure what is setting the various LC_ variables. I grepped > my > home directory, /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile and the only > result > that references LC_ is > ".xsession-errors:dbus-update-activation-environment: setting > LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8" in my home directory; there are similar entries > for > all the other LC_ variables in my environment. Is there some > configuration of dbus that sets those variables? If so, I don't know > where that is configured. I fear I have enough Linux experience to > get > in trouble but not enough to be really knowledgeable! > > Best, > > Hank Knox > > On 2020-07-23 10:44 p.m., Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hmmm... > > > > I agree this is probably not a bug but a user support problem. Let > > me > > add a comment: > > > > I chose to use $LANG to set the locale since that seems to be the > > way > > default install configures used by Debian system. > > > > Hank, if you are facing this issue on some default install system > > without violating my recommendation, let is know your desktop etc. > > > > Please run the following to check: > > > > $ locale > > $ echo "XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP='$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP'" > > > > Report it back to this bug > > > > Hank, anyway did you read on to the last part of 1.5.2 first: > > > > See locale(5) and locale(7) for "$LANG" and related environment > > variables. > > > > [Note] Note > > I recommend you to configure the system environment just by the > > "$LANG" variable and to stay away from "$LC_*" variables unless > > it > > is absolutely needed. > > > > I am pretty sure your system doesn't follow my recommendation. > > > > FYI: locale(7) describes: > > > > 1. If there is a non-null environment variable LC_ALL, the > > value of > > LC_ALL is used. > > > > 2. If an environment variable with the same name as one of the > > categories above exists and is non-null, its value is used for > > that > > category. > > > > 3. If there is a non-null environment variable LANG, the value > > of LANG > > is used.
