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Hi guys, |
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I just went through a new Gentoo installation for one of my machines, |
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and found the missing I18N info in the install docs very unfortunate. |
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Luckily someone pointed me to the i18n docs, but IMHO there should be a |
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link to I18N in the installation docs, as it is a very big part of |
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getting your system installed to a workable state. |
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I just read the I18n docs - they are missing quite a bit of info to be |
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useful. |
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First off - I DON'T set LANG vars in /etc/rc.conf - that is ugly - and |
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IMHO not the best way of doing it. |
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I created a /etc/env.d/02locale file containing: |
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LC_CTYPE="da_DK" |
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LESS_CHARSET='iso8859-1' |
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LC_MEASUREMENT='da_DK' |
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LC_TIME='da_DK' |
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LC_MONETARY='da_DK' |
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LC_NUMERIC='da_DK' |
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LC_COLLATE='da_DK' |
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LC_PAPER='da_DK' |
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LC_NAME='da_DK' |
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LC_ADDRESS='da_DK' |
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LC_TELEPHONE='da_DK' |
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MM_CHARSET=ISO_8859-1 |
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#LANG=da_DK.ISO_8859-1 |
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#LANGUAGE=${LANG} |
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I uncommented the LANG/LANGUAGE vars, cause then I get danish keyboard, |
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and programs that can print danish characters - but my system doesn't |
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start speaking to me in Danish - which I hate - and which also decreases |
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my chance of being able to google for the answer, based on an error |
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message. |
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Especially the LC_CTYPE has haunted me many a times - f.ex. Gaim just |
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croaked when it got a danish character if I didn't have this var set to |
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danish characters. |
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I would suggest that this could be added as an Ebuild for each language |
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- with the option of keeping the system language to english, while |
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supporting selected language. |
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Regards, |
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Klavs Klavsen, GSEC - kl@××××.dk - http://www.vsen.dk |
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Working with Unix is like wrestling a worthy opponent. |
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Working with windows is like attacking a small whining child |
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who is carrying a .38. |
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