Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Possible solution for altering date formats (Debian)?

[Jim Busser]

Interesting...

... despite that it was as root that I did dpkg-reconfigure and  
enabled en_DK.utf8 as the only locale, and set it as the default,  
when I restarted the computer:

- the bootup echos issued a warning that Postgres had a problem  
because the server could not be initiated with the locale en_CA.utf8  
becuase it did not exist but more interestingly

- the system issued a dialog box advising me that because en_CA.utf8  
did not exist, the system default (C ?) would be used.

I am not sure why that would be... maybe something about the locale  
that was chosen during the installation needs to be kept available.

The gnumed-client could then not connect to the backend... I was  
issued (no surprise) a message that no server was accepting  
connections on that socket.

I again ran dpkg-reconfigure locales, included en_CA.utf8 (along with  
en_DK.utf8) in the locales to be generated, and despite that I did  
still set en_DK.utf8 as the default, but which seems to be ignored,  
because after rebooting when I ran

        env

I saw that while LC_TIME was en_DK.utf8 my LANG and GDM_LANG were  
both still defaulting to en_CA.utf8

So within the current session, as normal user jbusser I did

        LANG=en_DK.utf8
        GDM_LANG=en_DK.utf8

and then

        &> LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 ./gm-from-cvs.sh

but it still made no difference in GNUmed.

Maybe if postgres is installed as part of the debian installation,  
something about the original locale becomes a postgres default that  
requires that locale to remain available even after the system would  
have its default altered.

Alternatively in the GNUmed client menu

        GNUmed > Options > Database > Language

there exist about five options none of which are en_DK and the widget  
seems not fully enough yet developed to permit to create New or Edit  
or Delete.



On 1-Jul-09, at 4:01 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:19:25AM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > That will depend on whether data for that locale is
> > installed at all. Make sure you've got the package
> > installed:
> >
> >         apt-get install locales-all
> >
> > Then run:
> >
> >         locale -a | grep en_DK
> >
> > to check.
>
> I admit I did not fully understand your problem but in the past
> I was able to solve nearly every locale problem via
>
>    sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
>
> Kind regards
>
>      Andreas.
>
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