F11: UTF-8 Locale issue

[Daniel B. Thurman]

On 09/13/09 09:03, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I did not notice this before, but thought I'd post it here:

$ system-config-language

(system-config-language:14713): Gdk-CRITICAL **:
gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display: assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed

(system-config-language:14713): Gdk-CRITICAL **:
gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display: assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed