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Re: Error: X does not support locale C. [message #54705 is a reply to message #54494]

Tue, 10 July 2007 08:12

cantrell
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Registered: June 2007

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On Jul 10, 4:48 am, Luis Hector Peraza <hper...@canberra.com> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 5:37 pm, cantr...@chara.gsu.edu wrote:
>
>> I have a FC5 machine with IDL Version 5.5a. When I try and run the
>> help, itdoesnotwork.
>
>> IDL> ?
>> IDL>Error:XdoesnotsupportlocaleC.
>
>> I have no idea what could be causing this. Any ideas?
>
>> -Justin
>
> Hello Justin,
>
> I recently upgraded my Linux system and ended up with the same
> problem.
> The newer distribution came with Xorg instead of XFree86, which places
> the configuration files into a different directory. The idlhelp
> program
> apparently searches for thelocale.alias andlocale.dir files only in
> the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/localedirectory, which was missing in the new
> distribution. The new location was /usr/share/X11/locale.
>
> To solve the problem, I did the following:
>
> cd /usr/X11R6/lib
> ln -s /usr/share/X11 X11
>
> The symbolic link allows idlhelp to find the necessary files. I
> suspect
> your case is similar, just look first for the X11localedirectory (it
> may also be under /usr/share/X11, under /etc/X11, or somewhere else;
> use
> the find command if necessary), then create the X11 link so it points
> to the whole X11 directory.
>
> Additionally, I had to setup the LANG environment variable:
>
> export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1
>
> otherwise idlhelp would segfault.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
> Hector.

YES!! YES!! THIS WORKED!!! Thank you so much

-Justin

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		Error: X does not support locale C. By: cantrell on Tue, 19 June 2007 08:37
		Re: Error: X does not support locale C. By: cantrell on Wed, 20 June 2007 08:17
		Re: Error: X does not support locale C. By: James Kuyper on Tue, 19 June 2007 13:41
		Re: Error: X does not support locale C. By: David Fanning on Tue, 10 July 2007 08:43
		Re: Error: X does not support locale C. By: cantrell on Tue, 10 July 2007 08:12
		Re: Error: X does not support locale C. By: Luis Hector Peraza on Tue, 10 July 2007 01:48

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