I’m usung Ubuntu 12.04 and after an automatic update it changed the system default encoding form UTF-8 to “ANSI_X3.4-1968”. I realized that when my code comments in Eclipse appeared with strange characters, and after realizing that the IDE was innocent, I’ve opened a terminal to check. When I type latin characters in a terminal window, such as \u00e7\u00e3\u00f5\u00e9\u00e8\u00ea…, a question mark shows instead. Same is I ‘cat’ a text file. Changing Ubuntu locale settings by GUI crashes the accounts-daemon:<\/p>\n
ExecutablePath: \/usr\/bin\/gnome-language-selector\nProcCmdline: \/usr\/bin\/python \/usr\/bin\/gnome-language-selector\n...\nFile \"\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/dist-packages\/dbus\/connection.py\", line 651, in call_blocking message, timeout)\nDBusException: org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.Failed: running '\/usr\/share\/language-tools\/save-to-pam-env' failed: no output\n<\/code><\/pre>\nI’ve then changed the save-to-pam-env adding a debug line and executed the lang-selector in a terminal:<\/p>\n
gag@desktop~> \/usr\/bin\/python \/usr\/bin\/gnome-language-selector\n(gnome-language-selector:17733): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.\n Using the fallback 'C' locale.\nlocale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory\nlocale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory\nlocale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory\nperl: warning: Setting locale failed.\nperl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:\n LANGUAGE = (unset),\n LC_ALL = (unset),\n LANG = \"pt_BR\"\n are supported and installed on your system.\nperl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (\"C\").\n...same message a dozen times...\nlocale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory\nlocale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory\n\/usr\/lib\/python2.7\/dist-packages\/LanguageSelector\/gtk\/GtkLanguageSelector.py:858: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal\n self._localeinfo.translate(loc, native=True) == defaultLangName):\n \/\/the line below is my debug 'print'\n exec: \/usr\/share\/language-tools\/save-to-pam-env \/home\/likewise-open\/CERTI\/gag pt_BR.UTF-8 \n<\/code><\/pre>\nSo, running this command by hand:<\/p>\n
gag@desktop~> \/usr\/share\/language-tools\/save-to-pam-env \/home\/likewise-open\/CERTI\/gag pt_BR.UTF-8\npt_BR.UTF-8\ngag@ccd-7840~> locale\nLANG=\nLANGUAGE=\nLC_CTYPE=\"POSIX\"\nLC_NUMERIC=\"POSIX\"\nLC_TIME=\"POSIX\"\nLC_COLLATE=\"POSIX\"\nLC_MONETARY=\"POSIX\"\nLC_MESSAGES=\"POSIX\"\nLC_PAPER=\"POSIX\"\nLC_NAME=\"POSIX\"\nLC_ADDRESS=\"POSIX\"\nLC_TELEPHONE=\"POSIX\"\nLC_MEASUREMENT=\"POSIX\"\nLC_IDENTIFICATION=\"POSIX\"\nLC_ALL=\ngag@desktop~> cat .pam_environment \nLANGUAGE=en\nLANG=en_US.UTF-8\nLC_NUMERIC=pt_BR.UTF-8\nLC_TIME=pt_BR.UTF-8\nLC_MONETARY=pt_BR.UTF-8\nLC_PAPER=pt_BR.UTF-8\nLC_NAME=pt_BR.UTF-8\nLC_ADDRESS=pt_BR.UTF-8\nLC_TELEPHONE=pt_BR.UTF-8\nLC_MEASUREMENT=pt_BR.UTF-8\nLC_IDENTIFICATION=pt_BR.UTF-8\n<\/code><\/pre>\nIt all seems fine, but restarting the PC and logging-in back things are still the same. By CLI I can see that the locales are properly installed:<\/p>\n
gag@desktop~> locale -a | grep pt\npt_BR.utf8\npt_PT.utf8\ngag@desktop~> locale -m | grep UTF\nUTF-8\n<\/code><\/pre>\nI’ve also tried:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get install language-pack-pt language-pack-pt-base\nsudo apt-get install --reinstall locales\n<\/code><\/pre>\nWith no effect. When I login with another account the encoding is ok. Ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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