Cannot set locale (ignored from /etc/locale.conf)

Question

I just installed Arch on my new machine and I wrote:
==> /etc/locale.conf
LANG=es_CL.utf-8
# LANG=es_CL.UTF-8 (I've tried with both).
after uncommenting it on /etc/locale.gen and running # locale-gen
(I basically followed every step in the wiki).
No matter what I do when I start any terminal, I found the locale commands output:
$ ~ locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
I found that if I open a tty, the /etc/profile.d/locale.sh is ran so, the locales are correct and locale shows the correct output.
The weirdest thing is that my old machine doesn't load locale.sh, and still the locale it's right.
I've search a lot through the wiki and bbs and even when there are couple of articles, none of them help me to solve this issue :(.
I'm running my session through systemd --user (in case it means anything).
EDIT: Add more info.
EDIT2: Fix typo
Last edited by pablox (2013-03-25 13:19:42)

Answer 1

WorMzy wrote:
Looks like it is, I removed it from my .zshrc and nothing changed.
Could you check whether es_CL.UTF-8 is actually listed as an available locale?
localectl list-locales
And if so, whether it's correctly set
localectl status
$ localectl list-locales
en_US.utf8
es_CL.utf8
$ localectl status
System Locale: LANG=es_CL.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MESSAGES=C
VC Keymap: la-latin1
X11 Layout: n/a
$ locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
$
Ô_o
I have removed an empty ~/.zprofile just in case but the issue persist. Running an empty zsh shell (with zsh -f) doesn't work either.
Last edited by pablox (2013-03-26 23:59:45)