Re: locale

[Mark Gray <markgray iago nac net>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> writes:

> oscheel@fz-borstel.de writes:
> 
>> Hi *,
>> if I try to run a program that uses gtk, I got the following message:
>> 
>> 
>> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> 
> The warning means that your locale setting (the LANG or LC_ALL 
> all environment variable) is not supported by the operating
> system.
> 
> The problem is not specific to GTK+ - it is just is noisier
> about it than other programs.
> 
> A possible reason for this is if you have the LANG or LC_ALL 
> environment variable set to 'de' - the C library only supports
> de_DE.
> 
> I don't know enough about SuSE  to say where this is configured
> for the system.

Change /etc/rc.config and then run SuSEconfig (this may be settable
using yast as well (I do not know which variables you will need to
change -- you should probably ask on a SuSE mailing list.))