Re: Trouble setting LC_CTYPE in a pared down chroot

[neitzel%hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de@localhost (Martin Neitzel)]

John Maron wrote:
>
> This is the result of the attempt to set to the en_US.UTF-8 locale:
>
> # env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ./locale
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_CTYPE="C"
> LC_COLLATE="C"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=""

Check if you have set LC_CTYPE explicitly to "C".
$LANG would not overrule this, it just sets a default.
$LC_ALL would overrule $LC_anythingelse in the environment.

locale(1) gives you all effective values, i.e. after applying
defaults (system and LANG), explicit settings, and an LC_ALL
overrule.

						Martin Neitzel