[gentoo-user] glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

[Alexander Skwar]

Hello!

Yesterday I updated from glibc-2.4-r1 to glibc-2.4-r2. Since then,
I've got problems with my UTF-8 locale. I suppose, that is because
the UTF-8 denomination seems to have changed from .UTF-8 to .utf8:

[10:17:42 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:~] $ locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
de_DE
de_DE.utf8
de_DE@euro
en_US
en_US.utf8

Before glibc-2.4-r2, it used to be "de_DE.UTF-8" and nto "de_DE.utf8".
I'm also concerned about those first 3 error messages reg. LC_CTYP,
LC_MESSAGES and LC_COLLATE.

Now, when I start some program like vncserver (actually: perl), I get:

[10:18:31 vz6tml@dewup-ww02:~] $ vncserver -help
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "de_DE.utf8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

usage: vncserver [:<number>] [-name <desktop-name>] [-depth <depth>]
                 [-geometry <width>x<height>]
                 [-pixelformat rgbNNN|bgrNNN]
                 <Xvnc-options>...

       vncserver -kill <X-display>

That's also especially annoying with KDE programs (I normally
use Gnome). There, when I enter a "special character" like the
German "ö", I only see 2 empty blocks: ??  But that seems only
to affect my local display, it's send out just fine. As an example,
please see <http://groups.google.de/group/de.test/msg/4eacf9dd61807ad2?dmode=source>

Well - what to do now?

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
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