Thank you Anders and those who replied to this one. Most of these little Gremlins are now laid to rest :-) The "sux" command proved particularly userful. Various warnings about locale occasionally come up, but I now know how to get round these. I suspect there are some funnies with changing locales via YAST with SuSE 7.2, but doubtless I will upgrade sometime, so these can be circumvented. Some of the applications e.g. my version of OpenOffice do indeed find it difficult to cope with Euro enabled locales and THAT was the problem here. Maybe that's a sign of the times - or a portent <G> Thanks again, Chris On Friday 28 June 2002 00:50, you wrote:
3) (Finally!) Some applications FAIL with problems with a "LOCALE" setting. Some just warn and default to "C" - But some others just bomb out. I thought the locale WAS correctly set up correcly... for the UK - under the dialog for YAST>Personalization>Country&Language, but maybe I'm missing something?
What is it set to? I'm guessing it's set to something@euro. Edit this in /etc/rc.config and remove the @euro part. Or change it to en_IE@euro. IIRC Irish English is the only locale set up for euro support.
regards Anders