On 5 Jun 2003 Jason Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The nearest I can tell all of this mess started yesterday when I did an > apt-get upgrade and an apt-get dist-upgrade. But for some reason > whenever I try launch Ximian Evolution I get the following message and a > gui segfault warning: > > (Evolution:1008): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library > > so in an effort to work with some advice that I had gotten I tried to do > a locale-gen, that worked but didn't fix anything and then a > dpkg-reconfigure locale. It ran me through all the questions that I > answered as best I could (I just found out what a locale is today and > still didnt really understand my selections) and made sure to select C > when it asked me.
Let me first admit I also still do not know all there is to know about locales, but I am pretty sure that: - installing locales and running locale-gen only make the locales of your choice available on your system; - which locale will be used is determined by the values of the LANG and LC_* environment variables; - some programs have trouble with certain locales, or with all locales other than C, but C should always work. So try export LANG=C LC_ALL=C in your .xsession and/or .bash_profile and see if the problem persists. If it does I have no immediate clue about what to do next. Maybe upgrade Gdk and/or the C library. If it turns out Evolution only wants to run with the C locale while your first choice is the locale corresponding to your own language, then you can set LANG and LC_ALL to the latter locale as default for your sessions and still use Evolution and other programs that only understand the C locale by changing the environment to their liking when starting them. This is done by prefixing the command to start them with an env statement, like so: env LANG=C LC_ALL=C <command to start program that only understands C> Ben -- B.F.M. Kal Anjelierstraat 1, 2014 TC Haarlem, Netherlands tel +31 23 5324909, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
