`Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. ` when starting apps from the commandline

http://askubuntu.com/questions/359753/gtk-warning-locale-not-supported-by-c-library-when-starting-apps-from-th I didn't get an answer but I wasn't doing anything and this is an interesting topic. In Ubuntu 12.04, when opening a file in gedit or if I am working on the command line in dpkg, I get returned the error "locale not supported, falling back to default "C" libraries", and the one below, Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. command-line  gnome  apt  locale share improve this question edited Nov 16 '13 at 18:00 community wiki 20 revs, 4 users 87% Diogenes Lantern

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First make sure your library language is installed sudo apt-get install language-pack-en-base, for example. Then, as superuser, shorten the work by allowing Ubuntu to automatically configure them: sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales Check your setup, if it's correct then good. But if you have the LANG= or LANGUAGE= settings blank, run this in command line: locale -a Which generates the locales installed and available to you. Choose the locale from the output generated that fits your situation, and export that setting to replace your locales, for example: export LC_ALL="en.utf-8" For manual installation use export to set locale by hand which will manually install custom locales, first run the set up as above. Then, say you want to install "en_us-8" for language but have need for another locale for NUMERICand TIME, you may wish to use "en_NZ.utf-8" (remember: these are case-sensitive) or LANGUAGE="en_GB.utf-8" and NUMERIC="en.dk.ISO-8859-15". Traveling to New Zealand, I could change the locale LANGUAGE="en.NZ". For Germany, I would just need to install the locales pkg for it and input, in terminal, like the examples below: export LC_ALL="en_US" export LANG="en_US" export LANGUAGE="en_NZ" export C_CTYPE="en_US" export LC_NUMERIC= export LC_TIME=en"en_US" LC_ALL= may remain empty. share improve this answer edited Mar 7 at 9:21 community wiki 15 revs, 4 users 67% Diogenes Lantern

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first: sudo apt-get purge locales then: sudo aptitude install locales and the famous: sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales This rids the system of locales, then re-installs locales and downgrades libc6 from 2.19 to 2.13 which is the issue. Then configures locales again.