Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday reminder
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:39:43
Message-Id: 200610061431.26411.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday reminder by Liviu Andronic
1 On Friday 06 October 2006 13:29, Liviu Andronic wrote:
2 > I have a slight problem with defining a en_US.UTF-8 locale. I tried the
3 > Gentoo Official Documentation on Localization and Syste-wide
4 > UTF-8, but I cannot make actually having en_US.UTF-8. Here are some
5 > commands I ran:
6 >
7 > The locales I have (nothing changes even after I run the rest of the
8 > commands.
9 > localhost ~ # locale -a
10 > C
11 > en_US.utf8
12 > POSIX
13 >
14 > localhost ~ # localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
15
16 localedef is not necessary. Use locale-gen instead.
17
18 > localhost ~ # locale-gen
19 > * Generating 1 locales (this might take a while)
20 > * (1/1) Generating en_US.UTF-8 ... [ ok ] * Generation complete
21
22 Which you did - with success.
23
24 > localhost ~ # locale -a
25 > C
26 > en_US.utf8
27 > POSIX
28 > localhost ~ # env | grep -i LC_
29 > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
30
31 And your current locale obviously is en_US.UTF-8. So... congrats... everything
32 is fine. :)
33
34 --
35 Bo Andresen