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Martin Hope
TheCodeGeek
Asked: 2012-03-08 14:51:41 +0800 CST
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Beginning with (Lucid) 10.10, Ubuntu began using base-10 to represent storage sizes. For me, working with Windows all day and then going to work on my Ubuntu notebook, it is very irritating to have to calculate values sometimes. I understand that it is the recommended policy to use base-10 (GB), but I am all too familiar with base-2 (GiB, or GB on Windows) and I blame Windows. So here is my question:

Is it possible to switch Ubuntu's Units policy to base-2 and if so, how?

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Martin Hope
Peter.O
Asked: 2011-04-02 10:29:18 +0800 CST
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I've got a locale problem.
The collating sequence in nautilus and other programs has changed.
I get locale errors appearing in the terminal when I launch a GUI app.. 

    Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

The locale command produces error messages

    locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
    locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
    LANG=en_AU
    LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
    LC_CTYPE="en_AU"
    LC_NUMERIC="en_AU"
    LC_TIME="en_AU"
    LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8
    LC_MONETARY="en_AU"
    LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8
    LC_PAPER="en_AU"
    LC_NAME="en_AU"
    LC_ADDRESS="en_AU"
    LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU"
    LC_ALL=

As suggested in askubuntu question, I've run the following commands, but there was no change. 

    sudo apt-get install language-pack-en-base
    sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

I also tried the suggestion in askubuntu question... also no change. 

    apt-get install --reinstall locales

I think it began when I temporarily installed and uninstalled the Urdu language Input Method Editor via IBus .. it certainly happened on the same day.

Maybe it is IBus related, but I've not had any problems with it before this.

  • The OS is 10.04
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Martin Hope
Olivier Lalonde
Asked: 2010-12-12 12:32:15 +0800 CST
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After a clean Ubuntu Server install, I get the following error when running 'perl'. 

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
    LANGUAGE = (unset),
    LC_ALL = (unset),
    LANG = "en_CA.utf8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Where should I set my locale, system wide and user specific? If there's a command line utility to do it I'd rather use it than manually edit configuration files.

locale perl
Martin Hope
Jonik
Asked: 2010-10-12 07:37:40 +0800 CST
  • 110

What is the recommended way to change the first day of the week to Monday (instead of Sunday, as in the screenshot below)?

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I couldn't find anything related in Clock Preferences, nor in System -> Preferences, or System -> Administration.

This probably has something to do with tweaking locales, so here's (possibly relevant) output from locale:

LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
...
LC_ALL=

NB: I want to keep English as the UI language both in GNOME and on command line. Dates are currently displayed like this (e.g. ls -l): 2010-10-06 15:32, and I also want to keep that as it is.

gnome locale calendar