Setting locale

[Gustavo Seabra]

Yes! This was the problem. I like to have the computer menus and dialogues in english, but the formats in currency in portuguese, but this ends up with a non-supported combination.

Thanks! 
Gustavo Seabra



On May 23, 2014, at 2:47 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> On May 22, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> 
>> On May 22, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>>> Assuming you're using the OS X Terminal application, check its Preferences window. Go to Settings, then Advanced, and make sure the checkbox "Set locale environment variables on startup" is checked.
>> 
>> Yes, it is checked, as you can see here: :-(
>> 
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8599624/Lang2.png
>> 
>> However, it i set to “Unicode (UTF-8)”. Is this how it is supposed to be? I don’t see in the list anything like en_US.*.
> 
> Yes, you should use UTF-8. It appears the system constructs the locale (the "en_US" part) out of the combination of language and region that you select in System Preferences.
> 
> 
> On May 22, 2014, at 9:39, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> 
>> $ locale
>> LANG=
>> LC_COLLATE="C"
>> LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
>> LC_MESSAGES="C"
>> LC_MONETARY="C"
>> LC_NUMERIC="C"
>> LC_TIME="C"
>> LC_ALL=
> 
> I get the same, if I set my OS X Language & Region preferences to Region: Brazil and Language: English as you have.
> 
> If I use Region: Brazil and Language: Portuguese, I get:
> 
> $ locale
> LANG="pt_BR.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="pt_BR.UTF-8"
> LC_CTYPE="pt_BR.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="pt_BR.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="pt_BR.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="pt_BR.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="pt_BR.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> If I use Region: United States and Language: English, I get:
> 
> $ locale
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> I think this all comes down to the fact that "en_PT.UTF-8" is not one of the locales the operating system provides in /usr/share/locale, therefore it defaults to C instead, which causes some problems as you noticed. You should set the locale to one of the UTF-8 locales the system provides. If you don't want to use one of the system locales as your OS X language and region setting, you could still do so in the terminal by setting these environment variables in your shell startup file.
>