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

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Daniel Pielmeier <
daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com> wrote:

> 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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>
The file /etc/env.d/02locale does not exist on my system.  I can create it,
of course,
but I suspect I may be missing something.  Is there a package I should
emerge?

++ kevin

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD