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

[Ben Skeggs]

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.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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