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From: "Patrick Börjesson" <psycho@××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 18:29:07
Message-Id: 20060505180908.GB27242@nexon
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale by Farhan Ahmed
1 On 2006-05-05 19:11, Farhan Ahmed uttered these thoughts:
2 > Well userlocales USE flag was there in glibc-2.4-r1 but it's absent in
3 > glibc-2.4-r2.. But here's the weird thing, I had compiled glibc-2.4-r1
4 > with userlocales USE flag, in my /etc/locales.build I just have
5 >
6 > en_US/ISO-8859-1
7 > en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8
8 >
9 > so the locale -a output, quiet expectantly, is:
10 >
11 > C
12 > en_US
13 > en_US.utf8
14 > POSIX
15 >
16 > But with 2.4-r2 there is no such flag as userlocales and I was expecting
17 > glibc to build all locales, but to my surprise I still have the above
18 > said locales only.. Any ideas?
19
20 locale-gen automatically uses /etc/locales.build (if it exists) if it
21 doesn't find any locales to generate in /etc/locale.gen
22
23 Regards,
24 Patrick Börjesson
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