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From: "Joshua Saddler (nightmorph)" <nightmorph@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc-cvs@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/doc/en: guide-localization.xml
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:16:42
Message-Id: E1MFlpK-0000u8-Tm@stork.gentoo.org
1 nightmorph 09/06/14 09:16:34
2
3 Modified: guide-localization.xml
4 Log:
5 updated localization guide for valid locale entries as obtained from /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED. bug 273779
6
7 Revision Changes Path
8 1.55 xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml
9
10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml?rev=1.55&view=markup
11 plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml?rev=1.55&content-type=text/plain
12 diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml?r1=1.54&r2=1.55
13
14 Index: guide-localization.xml
15 ===================================================================
16 RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml,v
17 retrieving revision 1.54
18 retrieving revision 1.55
19 diff -u -r1.54 -r1.55
20 --- guide-localization.xml 25 Feb 2009 21:18:19 -0000 1.54
21 +++ guide-localization.xml 14 Jun 2009 09:16:34 -0000 1.55
22 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
23 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
24 -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml,v 1.54 2009/02/25 21:18:19 nightmorph Exp $ -->
25 +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/guide-localization.xml,v 1.55 2009/06/14 09:16:34 nightmorph Exp $ -->
26 <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
27
28 <guide link="/doc/en/guide-localization.xml">
29 @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
30 the German doc. Includes configuration for use of the euro currency symbol.
31 </abstract>
32
33 -<version>1.40</version>
34 -<date>2009-02-25</date>
35 +<version>1.41</version>
36 +<date>2009-06-14</date>
37
38 <chapter>
39 <title>Time zone</title>
40 @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
41 systems. A locale name is generally named <c>ab_CD</c> where <c>ab</c> is your
42 two (or three) letter language code (as specified in ISO-639) and <c>CD</c> is
43 your two letter country code (as specified in ISO-3166). Variants are often
44 -appended to locale names, e.g. <c>en_GB.utf8</c> or <c>de_DE@euro</c>. Please
45 +appended to locale names, e.g. <c>en_GB.UTF-8</c> or <c>de_DE@euro</c>. Please
46 explore <uri link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale">Wikipedia</uri> to read
47 more about locales and related articles.
48 </p>
49 @@ -207,20 +207,21 @@
50
51 <warn>
52 Using LC_ALL is strongly discouraged as it can't be overridden later on. Please
53 -use it only when testing and never set it in a startup file.
54 +use it only when testing and <e>never</e> set it in a startup file.
55 </warn>
56
57 <p>
58 -Most typically users only set the LANG variable on the global basis:
59 +Most typically users only set the LANG variable on the global basis. This
60 +example is for a unicode German locale:
61 </p>
62
63 <pre caption="Setting the default system locale in /etc/env.d/02locale">
64 -LANG="de_DE.utf8@euro"
65 +LANG="de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8"
66 LC_COLLATE="C"
67 </pre>
68
69 <note>
70 -Append <c>@euro</c> to your locale if you want to use the Euro
71 +Use <c>de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15</c> as your LANG if you want to use the Euro
72 currency symbol (€)
73 </note>
74
75 @@ -232,7 +233,7 @@
76 </p>
77
78 <pre caption="Setting the user locale in ~/.bashrc">
79 -export LANG="de_DE.utf8@euro"
80 +export LANG="de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8"
81 export LC_COLLATE="C"
82 </pre>
83
84 @@ -243,7 +244,7 @@
85 </p>
86
87 <pre caption="Using traditional C locale while specifying UTF-8">
88 -LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8
89 +LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
90 </pre>
91
92 <p>
93 @@ -482,11 +483,10 @@
94 <body>
95
96 <p>
97 -In order to get your console to display the Euro symbol, you
98 -will need to set <c>CONSOLEFONT</c> in
99 -<path>/etc/conf.d/consolefont</path> to a file found in
100 -<path>/usr/share/consolefonts/</path> (without the
101 -<c>.psfu.gz</c>). <c>lat9w-16</c> has the Euro symbol.
102 +In order to get your console to display the Euro symbol, you will need to set
103 +<c>CONSOLEFONT</c> in <path>/etc/conf.d/consolefont</path> to a file found in
104 +<path>/usr/share/consolefonts/</path> (without the <c>.psfu.gz</c>).
105 +<c>lat9w-16</c> has the Euro symbol.
106 </p>
107
108 <pre caption="Setting the console font">