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 Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:12 pm Post subject: [solved] Cannot change thunderbird date format (KDE4) |
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Thunderbird does not recognize my system's date preferences. It always defaults to the American format (MM/DD/YYYY). I prefer DD/MM/YYYY. All efforts to change this have been in vain, would really appreciate some help here. I am desperate enough to change to Kmail right now.
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My thunderbird seems to read my locale settings correctly. What is the output of locale in a terminal?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | rahul@googly ~ $ locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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There's your problem. You'll want to read this.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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rahul@googly ~ $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale
LANG="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_COLLATE="C"
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rahul@googly ~ $ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_GB.utf8@euro
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_NAME="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_ALL=
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Can someone please explain the error.
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The three it mentions are not set. You should set all LC variables to something sane, and there is no point in leaving them at C or POSIX. I don't know why the page I linked sets LC_COLLATE to C. Probably just for demonstration. If you don't mind setting the locale for the entire system (for all users), try something like this instead:
| Code: | LANG="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_ALL="en_GB.utf8@euro" |
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| Cuber wrote: | The three it mentions are not set. You should set all LC variables to something sane, and there is no point in leaving them at C or POSIX. I don't know why the page I linked sets LC_COLLATE to C. Probably just for demonstration. If you don't mind setting the locale for the entire system (for all users), try something like this instead:
| Code: | LANG="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_ALL="en_GB.utf8@euro" |
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Makes no difference.
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rahul@googly ~ $ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_GB.utf8@euro
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_NAME="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_ALL=en_GB.utf8@euro
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Hm. Maybe you don't have that locale installed, then. Make sure en_GB.utf8 utf-8 is listed in /etc/locale.gen and run locale-gen.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | /etc/locale.gen
en_GB.UTF-8@euro UTF-8
en_GB ISO-8859-1 |
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/etc/env.d/02locale
LANG="en_GB.utf8@euro"
LC_CTYPE="C"
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This solves all my locale problems. However, since I already uninstalled Thunderbird and switched to Kmail as I was frustrated with the American Date Format  , I cannot check whether thunderbird is working correctly or not. However, I think that it would work well with this  , and therefore I am marking the thread as solved.
Thanks a lot Cuber for your help.
Cheers
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