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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > > > When I crank up K3b, it complains about my setup, with the message |
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> > > > |
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> > > > "System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 |
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> > > > Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode |
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> > > > filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this |
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> > > > has been done intentionally. |
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> > > > Most likely the locale is not set at all. An invalid setting |
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> > > > will result in problems when creating data projects. |
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> > > > Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_* |
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> > > > environment variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools |
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> > > > take care of this." |
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> > > > |
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> > > > It is correct that this is not intentional (it does seem antique). I |
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> > > |
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> > > have |
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> > > |
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> > > > configured .mybashrc to set my LANG to "en_US", but nothing beyond |
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> > > > that. What "distribution setup tools" is it referring to, so that I |
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> can |
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> > > > correct this on gentoo? |
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> > > |
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> > > What have you set up in your /etc/locale.gen ? |
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> > I won't take credit for setting this up, because I don't think I did. On |
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> > the other hand, |
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> > I've had occasion to internationalize a web page to dutch and polish, |
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> which |
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> > appear |
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> > in the list. So I dunno where it came from. |
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> > But here's what's there: |
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> > # /etc/locale.gen: list all of the locales you want to have on your |
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> system |
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> > # |
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> > # The format of each line: |
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> > # <locale> <charmap> |
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> > # |
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> > # Where <locale> is a locale located in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ and |
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> > # where <charmap> is a charmap located in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. |
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> > # |
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> > # All blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored. |
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> > # |
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> > # For the default list of supported combinations, see the file: |
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> > # /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED |
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> > # |
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> > # Whenever glibc is emerged, the locales listed here will be |
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> automatically |
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> > # rebuilt for you. After updating this file, you can simply run |
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> > `locale-gen` |
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> > # yourself instead of re-emerging glibc. |
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> > |
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> > en_US ISO-8859-1 |
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> > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 |
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> > #ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP |
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> > #ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 |
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> > #ja_JP EUC-JP |
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> > #en_HK ISO-8859-1 |
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> > #en_PH ISO-8859-1 |
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> > #de_DE ISO-8859-1 |
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> > #de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15 |
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> > es_MX ISO-8859-1 |
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> > #fa_IR UTF-8 |
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> > fr_FR ISO-8859-1 |
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> > fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15 |
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> > #it_IT ISO-8859-1 |
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> > pl_PL ISO-8859-15 |
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> This looks fine. If when you run $ locale you get a list with LANG=en_US |
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> but |
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> further down LC_ALL= (blank), then set export LC_ALL=xxx in your .bashrc |
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> to |
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> whatever you want your locale set to. |
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Halfway there. I did that, and now "locale" looks like |
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kevin@treat ~ $ locale |
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LANG=en_US |
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LC_CTYPE="en_US" |
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LC_NUMERIC="en_US" |
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LC_TIME="en_US" |
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LC_COLLATE="en_US" |
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LC_MONETARY="en_US" |
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LC_MESSAGES="en_US" |
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LC_PAPER="en_US" |
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LC_NAME="en_US" |
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LC_ADDRESS="en_US" |
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LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" |
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LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" |
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LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" |
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LC_ALL=en_US |
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kevin@treat ~ $ |
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However, when I start k3b from the KDE menus, it still complains. |
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On the other hand, if I start k3b from the shell that gives the "locale" |
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results above, |
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it starts clean. So the issue seems to be that I need to inform KDE about |
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the |
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locale. |
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I did a fresh boot, and that did not help, so I wonder if .mybashrc is the |
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correct |
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place to do this. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |