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[zkab]

I have Linux Mint Debian 201109 Gnome installed (64 bits) and have some problem with getting the locales in place.
Want to have the language 'english' but all the other formats in 'swedish'.
I generated the swedish locales:

Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_US.UTF-8... done
sv_SE.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.

The command 'locale' gave:

$ locale
LANG=C
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=C

I issued commands:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG
LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8
export LC_All

and put:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8

in both /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment.

Then 'locale' looked OK to me ...

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8

bu when log out/ log in I was back at square one again:

locale
LANG=C
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=C

and the language was swedish not english.
Where have I missed ... have read documentation about locales ... but can't figure out the solution

[xenopeek]

I'm thinking, redo:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

And make sure you select en_US.UTF-8 as the default locale at the end. That the "C" locale is set on your machine, means you didn't select the en_US.UTF-8 at the end as default locale.

After checking that, you only need to edit /etc/default/locale. And most locale settings you are setting are either not used, or you shouldn't change from the default to avoid breaking programs (like the collate). I'd only put the following in /etc/default/local (this is how I setup on my machine):

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LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"

And note that OpenOffice / LibreOffice is built to integrate as worse as possible with Linux, and is ignoring all locale settings. Manually set the locale for that if need. On Linux Mint 11 you would first install Swedish language support for it with "sudo apt-get install language-support-writing-sv", but this package is not available on LMDE (not sure if needed). From within Writer go to Tools -> Language Settings -> Languages dialog change Locale setting to Swedish, and Western to Swedish.

[proxima_centauri]

* Moved to LMDE forum

[zkab]

I'm thinking, redo:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

And make sure you select en_US.UTF-8 as the default locale at the end. That the "C" locale is set on your machine, means you didn't select the en_US.UTF-8 at the end as default locale.

After checking that, you only need to edit /etc/default/locale. And most locale settings you are setting are either not used, or you shouldn't change from the default to avoid breaking programs (like the collate). I'd only put the following in /etc/default/local (this is how I setup on my machine):

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LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"

Thanks - now it works ...

[zkab]

There is though a small promlem with Thunderbird.
When I receive a mail that has charset="UTF-8" then my swedish characters looks funny.
View source tells me for that mail:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

In Thunderbird I have 'View/Message Body As/Original HTML' and my locales look as follows:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

I have search for a solution but to no avail ... thankful for any help