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

[Daniel Pielmeier]

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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