Changing default locale to "en_US.utf8"

openpandora / meta-openpandora-vendor

OpenPandora vendor maintained package configuration layer for use with Openembedded/Ångström. This provides the branding, stylistic and functional overlay to stock Ångström to match that in shipped 'official' firmware images.

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Changing default locale to "en_US.utf8" #9

Open vinipsmaker opened 11 years ago

vinipsmaker commented 11 years ago

There was positive feedback regarding this change in the forums and I know no reason why someone wouldn't want to use Unicode.

I started a thread to find out the Angstrom way of setting a locale, but an old thread suggests the profile.d way and I cannot find much info in the wiki. Documentation of Angstrom is not even close to the quality of other distro such as ArchLinux.

vinipsmaker commented 10 years ago

Debian uses file /etc/default/locale to indicate the default profile. The OpenEmbedded was based on Debian and we're going back to Debian in the next device (Pyra), then this file is a good place to put the default locale info.

vinipsmaker commented 10 years ago

The list of files that source /etc/default/locale in Pandian is:

/etc/init.d/keyboard-setup
/etc/init.d/mountall.sh
/etc/init.d/lightdm
/etc/init.d/console-setup
/etc/init.d/kbd
/etc/con.daily/apt
/etc/pam.d/lightdm
/etc/pam.d/login
/etc/pam.d/su
/etc/pam.d/polkit-1
/etc/pam.d/lightdm-autologin
/etc/pam.d/lightdm-greeter
/etc/pam.d/sshd

So, there is no central place to propagate locale env vars.

Next step is to look which script starts the XFCE session in SuperZaxxon and change it to take locale env vars in account. Possibly (but unlikely) other scripts/services will need to change also.