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From: gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unwelcomed non-native language support
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 20:33:19
Message-Id: CA+t6X7cKSBLL0i7S2h7WMp3LGxjmAfqQ887D0F9=TuSYiB=P9g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Unwelcomed non-native language support by gevisz
1 2015-05-29 21:45 GMT+03:00 gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>:
2 > 2015-05-29 19:36 GMT+03:00 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>:
3 >> On Friday 29 May 2015 17:20:13 gevisz wrote:
4 >>> 2015-05-29 17:46 GMT+03:00 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>:
5 >>
6 >>> > Do you get anything unexpected when you run 'locale'?
7 >>>
8 >>> Nothing. (Thank you for your question.)
9 >>>
10 >>> I have just re-read the Gentoo Localization Guide
11 >>> (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide)
12 >>> and checked what I have in my /etc/env.d/02locale
13 >>> file: every possible option, except for LC_COLLATE
14 >>> and LC_ALL, is set to en_US.UTF-8. Here is its full
15 >>> content:
16 >>>
17 >>> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
18 >>> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
19 >>> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
20 >>> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
21 >>> LC_COLLATE=C
22 >>> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
23 >>> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
24 >>> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
25 >>> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
26 >>> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
27 >>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
28 >>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
29 >>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
30 >>
31 >> You probably don't need all these. Mine are:
32 >>
33 >> LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
34 >> LC_TIME="POSIX"
35 >> LC_COLLATE="C"
36 >>
37 >> The rest are inherited from $LANG.
38 >>
39 >>> Here is what I get from
40 >>> $ locale
41 >>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
42 >>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
43 >>> LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
44 >>> LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
45 >>> LC_COLLATE=C
46 >>> LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
47 >>> LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
48 >>> LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
49 >>> LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
50 >>> LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
51 >>> LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
52 >>> LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
53 >>> LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
54 >>> LC_ALL=
55 >>>
56 >>> I am almost giving up on this issue.
57 >>
58 >> Hmm ... this is rather odd. Just in case, you don't have in addition any LANG
59 >> or LC_* entries in your .bashrc?
60 >
61 > No. Looked there as well.
62 >
63 > Now, I am going to forcefully unmerge the gettext package.
64 > Will report the results later.
65
66 Reporting: after forcefully unmerging the gettext package,
67 shutting down the system and booting it anew, I still get
68 the described above menu in Firefox in one of the easten-european
69 languages.
70
71 I am killed! Completely.

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