Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library

[Alain Mouette]

I am trying to setup TinyCore with LXDE in portuguese, but for any lx* program that I run I get this:

tc@box:~$ LANG=en pcmanfm2
(process:2615): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale

If I use LANG=C I get no error, but I get this erro for whatever languge: en, de, en_US, pt_BR...

This appears to be something missing in some basic C libray, but google did not help this time. I installed
glib2-locale, glibc-i18n-locale, gtk2-locale but it did not help

Please Help!

[bmarkus]

Read this: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=1800.0

[Alain Mouette]

Thanks, that seems to be exactly my case.

BUT... ther is a problem: localedef is not present. It is listed under glibc-apps but it is not there. Is this a busybox problem? How can I get it?

I am running tinycore_2.10

[Alain Mouette]

Replying to myself...

This does fix the problem, I created the file /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive and transfered it to TinyCore and it works. Only problem is that there are lots of problems with UTF-8 characters...

The glibc-apps extension seems do be my problem, localedef is not included in TC-2.10. My UTF-8 problems would probably be fixed if I create the file with the propper version utilities.

Please help,
Alain

[Alain Mouette]

I just found more information about this...

The problem of the missing localedef was because I had too few loops. I added "max_loop=256" to boot command and now I can use it. I have around 95 loops with LXDE.

I still have a problem with UTF-8 chars in LXDE: they are not displayed properly and are repeated about 20 times...

I will revert to a clean image and do it all again, I hope that it will be ok but if anyone has any clue, please help!!!

[curaga]

Could be missing fonts. See if adding a few of the ttf extensions helps.

[Juanito]

Ah - I was puzzled as to why you couldn't find localedef - at least that's sorted out.

[Alain Mouette]

Well, finaly I found why localedef was not found, I am writing this as a feedback. I hope that it will be usefull to others

The problem was caused because I had not enough "loop" devices to install all the apps and it's locales; The default is 80, but with Lxde and locales I need around 95. I am using this kernel command line and now it works:

tinycore quiet max_loop=256 kmap=br-abnt2 lang=pt_BR.UTF-8