Bug#277711: gcalctool: Doesn't display thousands separator

Stephen R Laniel Stephen R Laniel <steve@laniels.org>, 277711@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:18:54 -0400


On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 01:16:14AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le jeudi 21 octobre 2004 ? 18:59 -0400, Stephen R Laniel a ?crit :
> > Hmm. /etc/locale.gen contains
> > 
> > /*
> > en_US ISO-8859-1
> > */
[snip]
> the locale seems to be commented, and /etc/locale.gen defines the
> supported locales, not the default one.

Sorry about that: the '/*' and '*/' were my additions to
separate the content of locale.gen from the body of the
email; those comment markers aren't actually in locale.gen.

> to check the current locale just run "locale".

See output from 'locale' below.

> You probably need to run "dpkg-reconfigure locales" and to pick en_US as
> the default one.

I ran that already. The only locale selected in there is
indeed en_US.

LANG=POSIX
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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