I'm having massive problems with Debian's locale Settings.
I want my server to talk to me in standard English (en_US.UTF-8?)
and additionally have de_DE.UTF-8
available for a few Python scripts that require it. I fudged around with pretty much all combinations of locale-gen
, dpkg-reconfigure
locales and editing of config files.
Now, when logging into my server, I'm greeted with this:
Last login: Fri Mar 13 22:23:14 2015 from 1.2.3.4
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (de_DE.UTF-8)
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (de_DE.UTF-8)
What does this even mean?
On my other server, I somehow managed to configure everything correctly, and locale -a
correctly outputs the following there:
C
C.UTF-8
de_DE.utf8
en_US.utf8
POSIX
On this server, however, I only get this at the moment:
C
C.UTF-8
POSIX
en_US.utf8
How do I fix this?
Best Answer
Turns out that
locale-gen
refused to generate a de_DE locale because it was commented out in/etc/locale.gen
.As you can see here, I've uncommented the locales I want. After a quick
locale-gen
, everything worked again.