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My Gentoo desktop has had a locale problem for longer than I can |
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remember. I haven't been able to solve it on my own, but it didn't |
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seem too important. More a frustration. I switched my profile to the |
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2008.0 desktop a few days ago. Everything seems to be working but I'm |
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getting more of these locale-ish messages now so I'd like to figure |
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out what I've done wrong. |
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Here's one typical message I might see when running emerge --depclean: |
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perl: warning: Setting locale failed. |
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perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: |
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LANGUAGE = (unset), |
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LC_ALL = "en_US", |
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LANG = (unset) |
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are supported and installed on your system. |
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perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). |
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The line about falling back to the standard locale "C" is pretty |
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standard. I also see this in k3b every time I start the program. As I |
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do a lot of audio work I'd really like to make sure the CDs I burn on |
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this machine will be acceptable to folks/friends/customers. Here's |
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what I see in k3b: |
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<SNIP> |
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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. Most likely the locale is not set at all. |
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An invalid setting will result in problems when creating data |
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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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<SNIP> |
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I don't have a clue what's wrong and the Gentoo pages about locale |
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setup seem to make some assumptions about my understanding of what |
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this does and how it does it that I'm not living up to so I really |
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don't know what to provide. I'll start with this and we'll see how it |
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goes. It seems that possibly I'm supposed to hand edit |
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/etc/env.d/02locale but in my longish history of running Gentoo (as a |
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user type) I don't believe I've ever had to edit that so I'm thinking |
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I must have messed up some other config file somewhere? |
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Thanks in advance, |
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Mark |
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lightning ~ # cat /etc/locale.gen |
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en_US ISO-8859-1 |
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en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 |
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lightning ~ # |
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lightning ~ # 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= |
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lightning ~ # |
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lightning ~ # cat /etc/env.d/02locale |
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LANG=en_US |
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lightning ~ # |
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