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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem getting UTF-8 locale
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:35:46
Message-Id: 200610062130.02915.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: problem getting UTF-8 locale by Liviu Andronic
1 On Friday 06 October 2006 20:51, Liviu Andronic wrote:
2 > Thanks for answering.
3
4 Was a mistake by me that I replied to the wrong mail of yours.. ;)
5
6 [SNIP]
7 > Please note that here locale -a doesn't show en_US.UTF-8, but
8 > en_US*.utf8 *(case
9 > change and missing dash).
10
11 That's expected. Not an error.
12
13 > Furthermore, I wouldn't have written on this matter if I didn't have
14 > problems with an application.
15
16 Yes, but we aren't mind readers. Knowing that you probably had a reason that you decided wasn't worth mentioning really isn't helpful...
17
18 > I use emelFM2 as file manager and it uses
19 > LC_* variables to determine the encoding to be used for file names (if not
20 > mistaking anything). Now, after having made changes to the locales (emelFM2
21 > was using C locale before, including for it's configuration file),
22 > filenames containing peculiar characters (Cyrillic and others) are
23 > illisible in the filelist. Moreover, although in debugs emelFM2 determines
24 > correctly that LC_ALL indicates en_US.UTF-8, it falls back (I believe) to
25 > using C locale instead of the utf-8 one (reads from and saves to config-C
26 > instead of config-en_US.UTF-8).
27
28 As you may have noticed emelfm2 has been removed from the portage tree because it lacks a maintainer. The latest ebuild is on bug #90476 [1]. Unlike the latest ebuild in portage that actually has a unicode use flag. Did you use that one [2]?
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30 [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90476
31 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=97568
32
33 --
34 Bo Andresen

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