Dmenu error: No locale support

Question

My dmenu recently started to spit out this error:
$ echo -e "foo\nbar" | dmenu
no locale support
According to wiki:dmenu this is because of an invalid encoding in $LANG. However, I can't figure out whether $LANG should be set to "en_DK.UTF-8" (as it is now) or "en_DK.utf8" in /etc/locale.conf. Wiki:locale says it should be "en_DK.UTF-8", but that leads to the dmenu-error shown above.
Here is my current "setup":
$ cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
LOCALE=en_DK.UTF-8
$ echo $LANG
LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
$ grep -v "#" /etc/locale.gen
da_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
$ locale -a
C
da_DK.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
POSIX
EDIT: This guy seems to have the same problem.
Last edited by graph (2013-05-24 19:59:21)

Answer 1

UnsolvedCypher wrote:Does the solution in the other thread work for you?
Sort of. If I change $LANG to "en_GB.utf8" it works. However, if I change to "en_DK.utf8" it doesn't.
"da_DK.utf8" also works, but it makes Pacman throw out errors in Danish, which is not preffered at all.
However, I'm curious to have this doesn't work with "en_DK.utf8" specifically?
EDIT: Dunst is also complaining about "no locale support"
Last edited by graph (2013-05-25 07:05:21)