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Re: Error: X does not support locale C. [message #54715 is a reply to message #54494]

Tue, 10 July 2007 01:48

Luis Hector Peraza
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Registered: July 2007

Junior Member

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, it does not work.
>
> IDL> ?
> IDL> Error: X does not support locale C.
>
> 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 the locale.alias and locale.dir files only in
the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale directory, 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 X11 locale directory (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.

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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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