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On 12/4/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> wrote: |
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> On Monday 04 December 2006 19:30, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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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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> [SNIP] |
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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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> > |
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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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> [SNIP] |
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> |
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> It's properly covered in the Gentoo Localization Guide [1]. You need to |
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> move/convert your locales.build to a locale.gen, run `locale-gen` and make |
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> sure it doesn't generate any errors and set LANG in /etc/env.d/02locale... |
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> |
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> If you need help you will have to post the contents of locale.gen and the |
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> output of `locale-gen`. |
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> |
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> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Bo Andresen |
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Hi Bo, |
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First, thanks in advance. I really appreciate all your help. I |
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think I'll ask a few questions as I go along, if that's OK. Thanks |
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again. |
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Reading the localization and quick install guides I've become a bit |
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more confused. The localization guide says the LC_* settings are done |
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in /etc/env.d/02locale but this doesn't exist here, not even after |
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running locale-gen: |
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lightning etc # ls /etc/env.d/ |
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00basic 10libx11 50gconf |
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75emul-linux-x86-compat |
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02distcc 10xkeyboard-config 50glib2 90games |
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03opengl 15openmotif-2.2 50gtk2 99fltk-1.1 |
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04multilib 20java 50ncurses |
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99gentoolkit-env |
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05binutils 20java-config 50qtdir3 99libstdc++ |
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05compiler 30java-finalclasspath 60gstreamer-0.10 binutils |
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05gcc 45emul-linux-x86-qtlibs 60gstreamer-0.8 gcc |
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05portage.envd 45kdepaths-3.5 60ladspa java |
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08nspr 45qt3 70less |
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08nss 50emul-linux-x86-gtklibs 75emul-linux-x86-base |
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lightning etc # |
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The current contents of locales.build are shown here. Seems fairly |
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generic but what do I know? ;-) |
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lightning ~ # cat /etc/locales.build |
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# This file names the list of locales to be built when glibc is installed. |
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# The format is <locale>/<charmap>, where <locale> is a locale from the |
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# /usr/share/i18n/locales directory, and <charmap> is name of one of the files |
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# in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. All blank lines and lines starting with # are |
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# ignored. Here is an example: |
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# en_US/ISO-8859-1 |
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en_US/ISO-8859-1 |
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en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8 |
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lightning ~ # |
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I ran locale-gen. No error messages: |
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lightning ~ # locale-gen |
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* You should upgrade your /etc/locales.build to /etc/locale.gen |
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* and then remove /etc/locales.build when you're done. |
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* Automatically importing locales from /etc/locales.build ... |
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* You really should do this yourself ... |
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* Generating 2 locales (this might take a while) with 1 jobs |
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* (1/2) Generating en_US.ISO-8859-1 ... [ ok ] |
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* (2/2) Generating en_US.UTF-8 ... [ ok ] |
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* Generation complete |
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lightning ~ # |
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Unfortunately there is no locale.gen file generated: |
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lightning etc # ls -la /etc/locale.gen |
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ls: cannot access /etc/locale.gen: No such file or directory |
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lightning etc # |
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lightning etc # updatedb |
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lightning etc # slocate locale.gen |
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/usr/share/man/man5/locale.gen.5.gz |
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lightning etc # |
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locale-gen seems to read locales.build, I think: |
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lightning etc # locale-gen -l |
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en_US.ISO-8859-1 |
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en_US.UTF-8 |
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lightning etc # |
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So far it seems like this isn't working for me. I'll wait for some |
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feedback and keep reading. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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