Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Marzan, Richard non Unisys <
Richard.Marzan@××××××.com> wrote:

> From: Dominik Zajac [mailto:banym.tuxaner@××××××××××.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 10:24 AM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale
>
> if theres no file 02local you have to create it and set your locales there.
> after donig this run env-update
>
> regards
>
> Dominik
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Daniel Pielmeier <
> daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman schrieb:
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> When I crank up K3b, it complains about my setup, with the message
>
>    "System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968
>    Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode
> filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this
> has been done intentionally.
>    Most likely the locale is not set at     all. An invalid setting
> will result in problems when creating data projects.
>    Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_*
> environment variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools
> take care of this."
>
> It is correct that this is not intentional (it does seem antique).  I
> have
> configured .mybashrc to set my LANG to "en_US", but nothing beyond
> that. What "distribution setup tools" is it referring to, so that I
> can
> correct this on gentoo?
> What have you set up in your /etc/locale.gen ?
> I won't take credit for setting this up, because I don't think I did.  On
> the other hand,
> I've had occasion to internationalize a web page to dutch and polish,
> which
> appear
> in the list.  So I dunno where it came from.
>
> But here's what's there:
>
> # /etc/locale.gen: list all of the locales you want to have on your
> system
> #
> # The format of each line:
> # <locale> <charmap>
> #
> # Where <locale> is a locale located in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ and
> # where <charmap> is a charmap located in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/.
> #
> # All blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored.
> #
> # For the default list of supported combinations, see the file:
> # /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
> #
> # Whenever glibc is emerged, the locales listed here will be
> automatically
> # rebuilt for you.  After updating this file, you can simply run
> `locale-gen`
> # yourself instead of re-emerging glibc.
>
> en_US ISO-8859-1
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> #ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP
> #ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8
> #ja_JP EUC-JP
> #en_HK ISO-8859-1
> #en_PH ISO-8859-1
> #de_DE ISO-8859-1
> #de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
> es_MX ISO-8859-1
> #fa_IR UTF-8
> fr_FR ISO-8859-1
> fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15
> #it_IT ISO-8859-1
> pl_PL ISO-8859-15
> This looks fine.  If when you run $ locale you get a list with LANG=en_US
> but
> further down LC_ALL=   (blank), then set export LC_ALL=xxx in your .bashrc
> to
> whatever you want your locale set to.
>
> Halfway there.  I did that, and now "locale" looks like
>
> kevin@treat ~ $ locale
> LANG=en_US
> LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> LC_PAPER="en_US"
> LC_NAME="en_US"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
> LC_ALL=en_US
> kevin@treat ~ $
>
> However, when I start k3b from the KDE menus, it still complains.
>
> On the other hand, if I start k3b from the shell that gives the "locale"
> results above,
> it starts clean.  So the issue seems to be that I need to inform KDE about
> the
> locale.
>
> I did a fresh boot, and that did not help, so I wonder if .mybashrc is the
> correct
> place to do this.
>
> try /etc/env.d/02locale
>
> LANG="en_US"
> LC_ALL="en_US"
>
> For details take a look at the localisation guide.
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml
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>
> The file /etc/env.d/02locale does not exist on my system.  I can create it,
> of course,
> but I suspect I may be missing something.  Is there a package I should
> emerge?
>
> ++ kevin
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I guarantee that those instructions will work for you. Check to see if you
> have 02locale in your /etc/env.d/ dir.
>
>
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> gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list
>
> It looks like I'd collect on that guarantee.
I did not have 02locale in /etc/env.d/dir, although there was a lot of other
stuff in that directory.
I added the two lines.
I ran env-update
I ctl-alt-backspace restarted my KDE/X system
I clicked k3b on the Multimedia submenu

It barked at me again about x3.4-1968.

So something isn't getting set up.

I have a feeling about "02locale" being so specific.  Why "02".  Back in the
days when I had
a similar thing going on with SysV Init, we had such stuff in our rc.d
directory for run levels.
Most of those files got installed by particular owning packages.  Would
anyone who has
this file, and does not think they created it from scratch, please find out
what package
it belongs to?  Thanks.

++ kevin


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD