F11: UTF-8 Locale issue

[Daniel B. Thurman]

On 09/13/09 08:58, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> On 09/12/09 23:11, Tim wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 16:28 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Can someone direct me how to set a system-wide
>>> UTF-8 locales?
>>>     
>>>       
>> That's the default (using UTF-8 encoding for most, if not all, locales).
>> What do you get if you type the "locale" command into a terminal?
>>
>> [tim at suspishus ~]$ locale
>> LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
>> LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
>> LC_ALL=
>>   
>>     
> $ locale
> LANG=C
> 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=
>
> I manually typed in: system-config-language
> and the default was the first top item in the
> list, i.e. Afrikaans (South America) and this
> was somehow the default set during installation
> of F11 even though the installer told me it was
> correctly set to English (USA).
>
> In any case, I do not understand why I have the
> "C" locale...
>
> Thanks-
> Dan
Oops - I meant: Afrikaans (South AFRICA) - sigh.