Strange Aptoncd error

[ka9qlq]

Anyone see this before?

ka9qlq@dittohead:~$ sudo aptoncd

(aptoncd:31006): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/aptoncd", line 27, in <module>
  from APTonCD.core import constants
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/APTonCD/core/constants.py", line 41, in <module>
  locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py", line 478, in setlocale
  return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

[flarson]

Re: Strange Aptoncd error

Unfortunately, yes, I have seen that. It probably means that you have enabled iso88591 to get decent manpages and now you get this message. Fortunately there is now a fix for it, at least in Jaunty. Not sure if this will work in Hardy but it is not hard to try. As root, edit /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local and add
en_US.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1
then as root run
locale-gen --purge to regenerate all locales, including the iso88951 character set.

[ka9qlq]

Re: Strange Aptoncd error

When/how did I do that Oh well your fix worked. Bless you my child.

[ka9qlq]

Re: Strange Aptoncd error

Hay I bet I did this when I was trying to get my beloved Midnight Commander to work
Any ideas for a fix?

[flarson]

Re: Strange Aptoncd error

I am not sure it is perfect but I think I can improve on what you just showed me.
sudo aptitude install xterm
mc is more comfortable in a less capable terminal.
then try
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 xterm -u8 -fn 9x15 -e mc
If you turn off iso88591 you would probably not need the LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 at the beginning.
Youwill probably start to get unreadable characters in man pages though. That is probably set either in your shell initialization (.bashrc,.bash_profile,.profile) or at /default/locales. If you changed /etc/default/locales its standard value in Kubuntu is
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

[ka9qlq]

Re: Strange Aptoncd error

I'll give it a try thanks