nightmorph 09/06/14 09:16:34
Modified: guide-localization.xml
Log:
updated localization guide for valid locale entries as obtained from /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. bug 273779
Revision Changes Path
1.55 xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml?rev=1.55&view=markup
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diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml?r1=1.54&r2=1.55
Index: guide-localization.xml
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.54
retrieving revision 1.55
diff -u -r1.54 -r1.55
--- guide-localization.xml 25 Feb 2009 21:18:19 -0000 1.54
+++ guide-localization.xml 14 Jun 2009 09:16:34 -0000 1.55
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml,v 1.54 2009/02/25 21:18:19 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml,v 1.55 2009/06/14 09:16:34 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/guide-localization.xml">
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
the German doc. Includes configuration for use of the euro currency symbol.
</abstract>
-<version>1.40</version>
-<date>2009-02-25</date>
+<version>1.41</version>
+<date>2009-06-14</date>
<chapter>
<title>Time zone</title>
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
systems. A locale name is generally named <c>ab_CD</c> where <c>ab</c> is your
two (or three) letter language code (as specified in ISO-639) and <c>CD</c> is
your two letter country code (as specified in ISO-3166). Variants are often
-appended to locale names, e.g. <c>en_GB.utf8</c> or <c>de_DE@euro</c>. Please
+appended to locale names, e.g. <c>en_GB.UTF-8</c> or <c>de_DE@euro</c>. Please
explore <uri link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale">Wikipedia</uri> to read
more about locales and related articles.
</p>
@@ -207,20 +207,21 @@
<warn>
Using LC_ALL is strongly discouraged as it can't be overridden later on. Please
-use it only when testing and never set it in a startup file.
+use it only when testing and <e>never</e> set it in a startup file.
</warn>
<p>
-Most typically users only set the LANG variable on the global basis:
+Most typically users only set the LANG variable on the global basis. This
+example is for a unicode German locale:
</p>
<pre caption="Setting the default system locale in /etc/env.d/02locale">
-LANG="de_DE.utf8@euro"
+LANG="de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C"
</pre>
<note>
-Append <c>@euro</c> to your locale if you want to use the Euro
+Use <c>de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15</c> as your LANG if you want to use the Euro
currency symbol (€)
</note>
@@ -232,7 +233,7 @@
</p>
<pre caption="Setting the user locale in ~/.bashrc">
-export LANG="de_DE.utf8@euro"
+export LANG="de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8"
export LC_COLLATE="C"
</pre>
@@ -243,7 +244,7 @@
</p>
<pre caption="Using traditional C locale while specifying UTF-8">
-LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8
+LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
</pre>
<p>
@@ -482,11 +483,10 @@
<body>
<p>
-In order to get your console to display the Euro symbol, you
-will need to set <c>CONSOLEFONT</c> in
-<path>/etc/conf.d/consolefont</path> to a file found in
-<path>/usr/share/consolefonts/</path> (without the
-<c>.psfu.gz</c>). <c>lat9w-16</c> has the Euro symbol.
+In order to get your console to display the Euro symbol, you will need to set
+<c>CONSOLEFONT</c> in <path>/etc/conf.d/consolefont</path> to a file found in
+<path>/usr/share/consolefonts/</path> (without the <c>.psfu.gz</c>).
+<c>lat9w-16</c> has the Euro symbol.
</p>
<pre caption="Setting the console font">
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