Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> My Gentoo desktop has had a locale problem for longer than I can
>> remember. I haven't been able to solve it on my own, but it didn't
>> seem too important. More a frustration. I switched my profile to the
>> 2008.0 desktop a few days ago. Everything seems to be working but I'm
>> getting more of these locale-ish messages now so I'd like to figure
>> out what I've done wrong.
>>
>> Here's one typical message I might see when running emerge --depclean:
>>
>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>       LANGUAGE = (unset),
>>       LC_ALL = "en_US",
>>       LANG = (unset)
>>     are supported and installed on your system.
>> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>>
>> The line about falling back to the standard locale "C" is pretty
>> standard. I also see this in k3b every time I start the program. As I
>> do a lot of audio work I'd really like to make sure the CDs I burn on
>> this machine will be acceptable to folks/friends/customers. Here's
>> what I see in k3b:
>>
>> <SNIP>
>> System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968
>> Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode
>> filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this
>> has been done intentionally. Most likely the locale is not set at all.
>> An invalid setting will result in problems when creating data
>> projects.
>> Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_*
>> environment variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools
>> take care of this.
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>    I don't have a clue what's wrong and the Gentoo pages about locale
>> setup seem to make some assumptions about my understanding of what
>> this does and how it does it that I'm not living up to so I really
>> don't know what to provide. I'll start with this and we'll see how it
>> goes. It seems that possibly I'm supposed to hand edit
>> /etc/env.d/02locale but in my longish history of running Gentoo (as a
>> user type) I don't believe I've ever had to edit that so I'm thinking
>> I must have messed up some other config file somewhere?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Mark
>>
>> lightning ~ # cat /etc/locale.gen
>> en_US ISO-8859-1
>> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
>> lightning ~ #
>>
>> lightning ~ # locale
>> LANG=en_US
>> LC_CTYPE="en_US"
>> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
>> LC_TIME="en_US"
>> LC_COLLATE="en_US"
>> LC_MONETARY="en_US"
>> LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
>> LC_PAPER="en_US"
>> LC_NAME="en_US"
>> LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
>> LC_ALL=
>> lightning ~ #
>>
>> lightning ~ # cat /etc/env.d/02locale
>> LANG=en_US
>> lightning ~ #
>>
>>
>>
>
> Check in your /etc/make.conf file and see if you have !some! of this:
>
> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
> VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
> LINGUAS="en"
> LANG="en_US"
> LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
> SANE_BACKENDS="hp"
> NUT_DRIVERS="cyberpower"
> ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1"
> CAMERAS="canon"
> LCD_DEVICES=""
> APACHE2_MODULES=""
>
> Keep in mind, your settings may vary from mine but some may need to be
> just like mine.  Also, if you do a emerge -pv <package-name>, it will
> show what options are on and also what is available to use if nothing is
> set.  Not all packages will use those settings so don't be concerned if
> it doesn't show them on those.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

Dale,
   Thanks. My list seems considerable too small (and possibly
incorrect)  vs yours. I suspect it should be identical. California,
only speak English.

CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
FEATURES="parallel-fetch distclean ccache"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="realmedia quicktime dri radeon mmx mmxext sse sse2 3dnow 3dnowext
gnome kde -esd -arts ladspa nptl nptlonly audiofile gimp gimpprint
ppds usb alsa cdr dvd dvdr dvdread jack jack-tmpfs fluidsynth tcltk
sndfile v4l v4l2 mysql flac xscreensaver -samba i8x0 mythtv apache2
-lirc mjpeg xvid xine cjk unicode vorbis ogg truetype java -eds -dts
a52"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ALSA_CARDS="hdsp9652 hdsp"
VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
PORTAGE_NICENESS=19
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf

Looking above I don't have LANG or LC_ALL entries and the LINGUAS is
suspect. If I was to convert them to your settings do I then need to
rebuild any apps that use them?

I tried puting the emerge -epv world results into a file and greping
the file. Does this list look about right? It does contain portage and
k3b which are my most common offenders so I think I'm probably on the
right track.

Thanks!

-Mark


lightning ~ # emerge -epv world >EMERGE.WORLD
lightning ~ # cat EMERGE.WORLD | grep LINGUAS
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc16  USE="-build -doc -epydoc
(-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB [0]
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/man-pages-3.14  USE="nls" LINGUAS="-cs -da
-de -es -fr -it -ja -nl -pl -ro -ru -zh_CN" 0 kB [0]
[ebuild   R   ] net-misc/neon-0.28.3  USE="nls ssl zlib -doc -expat
-gnutls -kerberos -pkcs11 -socks5" LINGUAS="-cs -de -fr -ja -nn -pl
-ru -tr -zh_CN" 0 kB [0]
[ebuild   R   ] app-portage/esearch-0.7.1  LINGUAS="-it" 0 kB [?=>0]
[ebuild   R   ] app-text/xpdf-3.02-r1  USE="-nodrm" LINGUAS="-ar -el
-he -ja -ko -la -ru -th -tr -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB [0]
[ebuild   R   ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.18
USE="-restrict-javascript" LINGUAS="en en_US -af -ar -be -bg -ca -cs
-da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE
-gu -gu_IN -he -hu -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn
-nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv -sv_SE -tr
-uk -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB [0]
[ebuild   R   ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.18  USE="gnome java
-bindist -debug -filepicker -iceweasel -ipv6 -mozdevelop -moznopango
-restrict-javascript -xforms -xinerama -xprint" LINGUAS="en en_US -af
-ar -be -bg -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr
-fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu -gu_IN -he -hu -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk
-mn -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn -nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru
-sk -sl -sv -sv_SE -tr -uk -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB [0]
[ebuild   R   ] net-www/mplayerplug-in-3.50  USE="firefox (multilib)
nls quicktime realmedia -divx -gmedia -gtk -seamonkey -wmp -xulrunner"
LINGUAS="en_US -cs -da -de -es -fr -hu -it -ja -ko -nb -nl -pl -pt_BR
-ru -se -sk -tr -wa -zh_CN" 0 kB [0]
[ebuild   R   ] net-print/cups-1.3.8-r2  USE="X acl dbus java jpeg
ldap pam perl png ppds python samba ssl tiff -avahi -gnutls -kerberos
-php -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he
-id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW" 0 kB [0]
[ebuild   R   ] app-office/openoffice-bin-3.0.0  USE="gnome java kde"
LINGUAS="en -af -ar -as_IN -be_BY -bg -br -bs -ca -cs -da -de -dz -el
-en_GB -en_ZA -es -et -fi -fr -ga -gu -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -it -ja -ka
-km -ko -lt -mk -ml_IN -mr_IN -nb -ne -nl -nn -nr -ns -or_IN -pa_IN
-pl -pt -pt_BR -rw -sh -sk -sl -sr -ss -st -sv -sw_TZ -ta -te_IN -tg
-th -ti_ER -tr -ts -uk -ur_IN -ve -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu" 0 kB [0]
[ebuild   R   ] app-cdr/k3b-1.0.4  USE="alsa dvdr dvdread encode
ffmpeg flac hal mp3 sndfile vorbis -arts -css -debug -emovix -musepack
-musicbrainz -vcd -xinerama" LINGUAS="-af -ar -bg -br -bs -ca -cs -cy
-da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -ga -gl -he -hi -hu -is -it
-ja -ka -lt -mk -ms -nb -nds -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -rw -se
-sk -sr -sr@Latn -sv -ta -tr -uk -uz -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB [0]
lightning ~ # cat EMERGE.WORLD | grep LANG
lightning ~ # cat EMERGE.WORLD | grep LC
lightning ~ #