Re: [gentoo-amd64] Creation of locales

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 22:48, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:

> `locale-gen --config /etc/locale.gen` is run by pkg_postinst() of
> sys-libs/glibc.

Seems reasonable.

> What is the output of:
>
> # egrep -v '^#|^$' /etc/locale.gen

It just happened that emerge -e world had reached glibc as I read this, so I 
waited for it to end and then paused the emerge. This is the result:

# egrep -v '^#|^$' /etc/locale.gen
en_GB
en_GB ISO-8859-1
en_GB ISO-8859-15
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8

I assume there's a typo there somewhere, but it seems to me to match the 
examples given in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. I know the -15 variant isn't 
supported (by what? It isn't clear), and I can remove it if necessary.

Output from glibc postinst:

 * Generating 3 locales (this might take a while)
 *  (1/3) Generating en_GB ...
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB:25: LC_IDENTIFICATION: unknown character in 
field `address'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB:60: LC_MONETARY: unknown character in field 
`currency_symbol'               [ !! ]
 *  (2/3) Generating en_GB.ISO-8859-1 ...
cannot open locale definition file `ISO-8859-1': No such file or directory                                
[ !! ]
 *  (3/3) Generating en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ...
cannot open locale definition file `ISO-8859-15': No such file or directory                               
[ !! ]
 * Bad entry in locale.gen: 'UTF-8 '; skipping
 * Generation complete

After this, I get:

# locale -a
C
POSIX
en_GB

and I have to run locale-def again to re-create my locales, thus:

# localedef -c -i en_GB -f ISO-8859-15 en_GB.ISO-8859-15
# localedef -c -i en_GB -f ISO-8859-1 en_GB.ISO-8859-1
# localedef -c -i en_GB -f UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8

(no errors reported)

Then:

# locale -a
C
POSIX
en_GB
en_GB.iso88591
en_GB.iso885915
en_GB.utf8

Thanks for pointing out the stage at which my locales are getting zapped; it 
helped me this time by coincidence, but it would be good to find the 
problem and fix it.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

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