Setting the Locales and paper size on Ubuntu Karmic
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Setting the Locales and paper size on Ubuntu Karmic

Jurjen Bokma

February

After advice from Piet Plomp, I adjusted some locales-related settings on our PCs. In /etc/papersize I set the system wide default paper size: 

      a4

And in /etc/default/locale I set the Locale defaults: 

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8

The default language is set in /etc/environment: 

<snip>
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

. OpenOffice needs extra nudging in /etc/openoffice/psprint.conf:

sed -i '/;\ *PPD_PageSize=A4/ s%^;\ *%%g' /etc/openoffice/psprint.conf

As a result of this, when installing perl packages, the system starts complaining about the Locales settings not being supported. This can be repaired by installing the appropriate language packs.

[Note]Note

CUPS is still installing its printers with letter as the default. This issue is on my ToDo list.

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