Re: [gentoo-amd64] Umlaut character handling...

[Mark Knecht]

On 9/15/05, Ben Skeggs <darktama@×××××××××.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On 9/15/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks Ben. That looks very helpful.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > On 9/15/05, Ben Skeggs <darktama@×××××××××.au> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 14:38 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > > >    What is it waht effects this sort of thing and how do I make my
> > > > > system self consistent so that programs aren't crashing on me?
> > > > >
> > > > Some parts of this guide may be of use to you..
> > > >
> > > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Make_your_system_use_unicode/utf-8
> > > >
> > > > Ben.
> >
> > Ben, et. all,
> >    There is a section in the above wiki that tells me to set my
> > locale. However the file in /etc/env does not exist:
> >
> > <SNIP>
> >  Setting locale
> >
> > Set your locale:
> > File: /etc/env.d/02locale
> >
> > LANG="de_DE.utf8"
> > LANGUAGE="de_DE.utf8"
> > LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8"
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > Has the place where you properly set locale moved or am I supposed to
> > create somethign out of thin air?
> I believe that you should be able to just create the file yourself, and
> then run "env-update && source /etc/profile".  I haven't tested this
> though.
>
> When I had everything in German to help me learn it quicker, I added the
> lines to my ~/.bashrc (didn't want to affect other user accounts).
>
> Ben.

Yeah, that probably makes sense.

My first attempt was DISASTERIOUS! I lost all networking of all
things. Many complaints at boot time. I clearly don't know what I'm
doing yet. I rebuilt the kernel again with the other language support
options and am running again. This stuff now scares me.

- Mark

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