Re: "LANG=en_IL.UTF-8 cannot be used, using en_US.UTF-8 instead" every time Emacs is opened

[Evan Aad]

Thanks, Bob.

> The main utility to query the system about the currently configured locale is
the "locale" command.  What does it say?

It says:

LANG=""
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 1:09 AM Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
>
> Evan Aad wrote:
> > LANG=en_IL.UTF-8 cannot be used, using en_US.UTF-8 instead.
> >
> > It's not a big deal, but it's annoying, and I'd like this message not
> > to appear every time I open emacs.
> >
> > Would you please help me diagnose, and resolve this issue?
>
> By this message it appears to me that en_IL.UTF-8 is not installed and
> is therefore not available as a locale to be selected.  The main
> utility to query the system about the currently configured locale is
> the "locale" command.  What does it say?
>
>     locale
>
> For example I definitely do not have that locale installed and I see
> this example output.  This is an example of not having the locale
> available and therefore things fall back to the C locale.
>
>     rwp@madness:~$ env LANG=en_IL.UTF-8 locale
>     LANG=en_IL.UTF-8
>     LC_CTYPE="C"
>     LC_COLLATE=C
>     LC_TIME="C"
>     LC_NUMERIC="C"
>     LC_MONETARY="C"
>     LC_MESSAGES=C
>     LC_ALL=
>
> Just to show an example this is what I will normally see with my
> customized settings.
>
>     rwp@madness:~$ locale
>     LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>     LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_COLLATE=C
>     LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
>     LC_MESSAGES=C
>     LC_ALL=
>
> I find Perl to be most useful to diagnose locale issues too.  Here is
> an example.  If the specified locale exists then the command is silent.
>
>     rwp@madness:~$ env LANG=en_IL.UTF-8 perl -e 0
>     perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>     perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>             LC_ALL = (unset),
>             LC_MESSAGES = "C",
>             LC_COLLATE = "C",
>             LANG = "en_IL.UTF-8"
>         are supported and installed on your system.
>     perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>
> As far as I know installed locales available are names installed into
> /usr/share/local/ and listed there.
>
>     ls /usr/share/locale/
>
> If you don't see en_IL.UTF-8 there then that is definitely what is
> happening.  I don't have en_IL.UTF-8 available on any of my systems.
> I don't know anything about Mac OS X and have no idea how locales are
> installed and managed there.
>
> Hope this helps!
> Bob
>