Gnome-terminal/System as UTF-8?

Open a terminal - Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal and type the following command:-

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

It should prompt you for all the locales you want generated and which should be the default. Once done, logout and back in. Use the "locale" command in a terminal to see what locale you are currently using. Here is a sample:-

alan@wopr:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Hi Alan.

Thanks for your input... but it didn't worked:

tiago@magi:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Current default timezone: 'Europe/Lisbon'.
Local time is now: Wed Feb 7 12:34:23 WET 2007.
Universal Time is now: Wed Feb 7 12:34:23 UTC 2007.
Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it.

That's pretty much all it does.

Hmm, that's odd, sorry about that. It does different things on Debian and Ubuntu.

Pop up a terminal and try this:-

sudo apt-get install localeconf

if you ever need to reconfigure it

sudo dpkg-reconfigure localeconf

I got that from the following page:-

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf

(I should have looked there first :) )

The terminal is still at ANSI.

tiago@magi:~$ sudo apt-get install localeconf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
localeconf is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

tiago@magi:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure localeconf
#this is where I signal everything to en-US.UTF.8

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or director y
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or direc tory
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

tiago@magi:~$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

User confirmed that the request is solved.

Sorry for the late reply, I've been away.

Apparently it seems to be fixed but still... it's a pretty catchy situation, that I would like to be address in the future.

My sincere thanks to everyone who helped me.

You'r welcome! There should be a Gnome application which helps you installing new languages. This should be used to install the needed files before changing the language.

There is, fhackenberger.

I decided to try this on Edgy:

Installation:
 Language = C
 Country = Portugal

After the installation: System -> Administration -> Language Support
* Check the support for English.
* Set the default language as English (United States of America).
* Restarted GNOME.
* Profit.

But this is incredibly moronic.
All I want is to install an basic English (C, to me, implies a non-specific base of English, locale) with UTF-8, based in Portugal, but if you l look at my first query, it seems to be impossible to do this via a direct approach. *grumble*