Issues with incorrect locale settings

[Adam Weinberger]

Trey Sizemore wrote:
> It would appear that my locale settings are defaulting back to C, at
> least for gnome apps. I log in using GDM and set my locale to en _US but
> my gnome/gtk apps (specifically mailers like sylpheed and evolution)
> default to C when sorting my mail folders (case sensitive) or presenting
> date formats for the current locale.
> 
> Here's my locale output
> 
> trey at salamander~> locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> It appears that the entries presented with quotes (COLLATE) is telling
> me there's a problem.
> 
> How can I fix this? It's driving me crazy.

I may be missing something here, but GNOME doesn't provide en_US 
translations at all. With a lack of explicit en_US definitions, it falls 
back on C. The output of locale(1) doesn't look incorrect (my output 
contains quotes as well, and my locale settings work fine for me):
monkey at smacky:~% locale
LANG=en_CA.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE="en_CA.ISO8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="en_CA.ISO8859-1"
LC_TIME="en_CA.ISO8859-1"
LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.ISO8859-1"
LC_MONETARY="en_CA.ISO8859-1"
LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.ISO8859-1"
LC_ALL=

# Adam


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