Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

[David W Noon]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales:

[snip]
>Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale:
>
>LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
>LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
>LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
>LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
>LC_COLLATE="C"
>LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
>LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
>LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
>LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
>LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
>LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
>LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
>LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"

Did you run env-update afterwards?

I ditched all those /etc/env.d settings for locale, and put mine
in /etc/profile.d/local.sh as follows:

<---------><---------><---------><---------><---------><--------->
# Temporary files go to the RAMDisk.
export TMPDIR='/tmp'

# Define our local squid proxy.
export http_proxy='http://localhost:8080'
export ftp_proxy='http://localhost:8080'
export RSYNC_PROXY='localhost:8080'

# The OpenSSL random seed lives here:
export RANDFILE='/.rnd'

# Set the zsh FTP commands to use passive mode
export ZFTP_PREFS='P'

# If the user has a private bin directory, prepend it to the PATH.
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ]; then
	export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

# Set a sensible locale, if possible.
if [ -d '/usr/share/locale/en_GB' ]; then
	export LC_ALL='en_GB.utf8'
	export LANG='en_GB.utf8'
	export LANGUAGE='en_GB.utf8'
else
	export LC_ALL='C'
	unset LANG LANGUAGE
fi
<---------><---------><---------><---------><---------><--------->

This gives me a single point of maintenance for several system
customizations.  Also, it allows me to use conditional logic to set
sensible values.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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