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Hi, |
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I don't understand locales, or not really. I get that they say |
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something about where the machine is running and what character |
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set/sets the machine should use, but that's as far as I go with it. |
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It's never been much of a problem. |
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I unmasked the k3b_beta1.0 package and built it this morning to |
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look at a new feature. When I start the program I'm getting a message: |
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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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I'm going back looking at the Gentoo Quick Install Guide. It talks |
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about locales.build and locales.gen for recent version of glibc. |
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Section 2.37 at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml |
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However my AMD64 machine seems like it's either not set up or set up |
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for an old version of glibc: |
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lightning ~ # slocate locales.build |
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/etc/locales.build |
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/mnt/gentoo32/etc/locales.build |
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/usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/files/locales.build |
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lightning ~ # slocate locales.gen |
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lightning ~ # |
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Do I need to change things like the setup guide would have me do? |
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I have no 'LC_' setting in make.conf nor do I see anything obvious |
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in /etc/conf.d. |
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I'm very confused about this stuff anyway. Thanks in advance for being kind. |
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cheers, |
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Mark |
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