here a win 10 with german locale; setting preferences in GRASS to en, then I
get:
--------------
All attempts to enable English language have failed. GRASS running with C
locale.
If you observe UnicodeError in Python, install en_US.UTF-8 locale and
restart GRASS.
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what does this mean?
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Helmut
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On 25/11/17 10:46, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:
here a win 10 with german locale; setting preferences in GRASS to en, then I
get:--------------
All attempts to enable English language have failed. GRASS running with C
locale.
If you observe UnicodeError in Python, install en_US.UTF-8 locale and
restart GRASS.
-------------what does this mean?
See https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3441.
Moritz
Moritz Lennert wrote
On 25/11/17 10:46, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:
here a win 10 with german locale; setting preferences in GRASS to en,
then I
get:--------------
All attempts to enable English language have failed. GRASS running with C
locale.
If you observe UnicodeError in Python, install en_US.UTF-8 locale and
restart GRASS.
-------------what does this mean?
"install en_US.UTF-8 locale and restart GRASS."
from the #3441:
"My question was how widespread C.UTF-8 is as a locale present on machines.
"
all the things mentioned in the ticket and the message may work in *nix
environments, not sure that this will work in win (e.g. [1], [2], ...) and
mac.
[1]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4324542/what-is-the-windows-equivalent-for-en-us-utf-8-locale
[2]
https://superuser.com/questions/239810/setting-utf8-as-default-character-encoding-in-windows-7
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2017-11-25 11:46 GMT+02:00 Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik@web.de>:
here a win 10 with german locale; setting preferences in GRASS to en, then I
get:--------------
All attempts to enable English language have failed. GRASS running with C
locale.
If you observe UnicodeError in Python, install en_US.UTF-8 locale and
restart GRASS.
-------------what does this mean?
It means that you want to run GRASS in a language that is not
supported on your system. Attempts to switch GRASS + any related
programs that GRASS might be calling to English have failed. Your
GRASS session will run with C locale. It is not the same as en_US and
thus, although you might see messages in English (due to fact that
they are in English in the source code), it will not behave as it
should for a proper (US) English language (i.e. sorting will be "A B C
a b c" versus your expected "a A b B c C"). One more bad thing will be
defaulting to ASCII encoding thus most likely causing a failure at the
first encounter with "Österreich" (still "schadenfreude" will be
fine). To enjoy a proper English experience in GRASS, you should
install en_US.UTF-8 locale on your system. If you think – how QGIS
manages to deal with it –, here GRASS modularity bites us, besides
everything in QGIS-land is also not so fine with language switching.
Unfortunately I do not have access to recent Windows boxes (I have a
Vista VM), neither MacOS thus patches solving problems on those OSes
will have to be provided by GRASS Windows and Mac developers.
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best regards
Helmut
Māris.
Maris Nartiss wrote
2017-11-25 11:46 GMT+02:00 Helmut Kudrnovsky <
hellik@
>:
here a win 10 with german locale; setting preferences in GRASS to en,
then I
get:--------------
All attempts to enable English language have failed. GRASS running with C
locale.
If you observe UnicodeError in Python, install en_US.UTF-8 locale and
restart GRASS.
-------------what does this mean?
It means that you want to run GRASS in a language that is not
supported on your system. Attempts to switch GRASS + any related
programs that GRASS might be calling to English have failed. Your
GRASS session will run with C locale. It is not the same as en_US and
thus, although you might see messages in English (due to fact that
they are in English in the source code), it will not behave as it
should for a proper (US) English language (i.e. sorting will be "A B C
a b c" versus your expected "a A b B c C"). One more bad thing will be
defaulting to ASCII encoding thus most likely causing a failure at the
first encounter with "Österreich" (still "schadenfreude" will be
fine). To enjoy a proper English experience in GRASS, you should
install en_US.UTF-8 locale on your system. If you think – how QGIS
manages to deal with it –, here GRASS modularity bites us, besides
everything in QGIS-land is also not so fine with language switching.Unfortunately I do not have access to recent Windows boxes (I have a
Vista VM), neither MacOS thus patches solving problems on those OSes
will have to be provided by GRASS Windows and Mac developers.
r.category map=myrast@user1
1 österreich
2 schadenfreude
3 lokalität
at least this one works 
in theory, this language package could be installed in win 10:
English LanguagePack - Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems
(KB4046355) [en-US_LP]
in practice, it fails on my laptop ....
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On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Maris Nartiss <maris.gis@gmail.com> wrote:
...
Unfortunately I do not have access to recent Windows boxes (I have a
Vista VM),
That's easy to solve: Microsoft provides VMs of Win7, 8.1 and
apparently 10, so-called "Internet Explorer VM"s:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
To use it, download the OVA file and import it in Virtualbox:
"File -> Import Appliance"
Markus