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On 07/10/2009 02:48 PM, Stroller wrote: |
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> Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_* |
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> environment variables are set... |
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> Googling "LC_* environment variables" turns up this doc: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3 |
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> I assume this document is correct & up to date? |
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> (and is not superseded by the LINGUAS="en_GB en" that I have in make.conf) |
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As far as I know the LINGUAS variable is used only during the building |
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of packages, and is not related to the LANGUAGE or LC variables. If I'm |
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wrong then someone correct me, please. I've been vague about this for |
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years. |
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To discover what locales you have in /usr/share/locale, type 'locale -a' |
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at a shell prompt. If you emerged glibc with your LINGUAS variable set |
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to en_GB en then you may have only English-oriented locales listed, |
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In any case you should easily spot what you need in the output of |
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locale -a | grep GB. |
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Unless you have some very arcane lanuage needs you can just set the |
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value of LC_ALL instead of worrying about nine different ones. |
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Here is my /etc/env.d/02locale as an example from the colonies, which |
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of course is unsuitable for a truly civilized country: |
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$cat /etc/env.d/02locale |
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LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LANG="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LANGUAGE="en_US.UTF-8" |
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LINGUAS="" |
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ALL_LINGUAS="" |
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The redundancy in that file is probably overkill because I didn't know |
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exactly what to include. It may well be that some of those don't need |
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to be there, and someone who knows will enlighten us both :o) |
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