[gentoo-user] Re: problem getting UTF-8 locale

[Liviu Andronic]

Thanks for answering.


On 10/6/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> wrote:
>
> On Friday 06 October 2006 13:29, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > I have a slight problem with defining a en_US.UTF-8 locale. I tried the
> > Gentoo Official Documentation on Localization and Syste-wide
> > UTF-8, but I cannot make actually having en_US.UTF-8. Here are some
> > commands I ran:
> >
> > The locales I have (nothing changes even after I run the rest of the
> > commands.
> > localhost ~ # locale -a
> > C
> > en_US.utf8
> > POSIX

Please note that here locale -a doesn't show en_US.UTF-8, but
en_US*.utf8 *(case
change and missing dash).

Furthermore, I wouldn't have written on this matter if I didn't have
problems with an application. I use emelFM2 as file manager and it uses LC_*
variables to determine the encoding to be used for file names (if not
mistaking anything). Now, after having made changes to the locales (emelFM2
was using C locale before, including for it's configuration file), filenames
containing peculiar characters (Cyrillic and others) are illisible in the
filelist. Moreover, although in debugs emelFM2 determines correctly that
LC_ALL indicates en_US.UTF-8, it falls back (I believe) to using C locale
instead of the utf-8 one (reads from and saves to config-C instead of
config-en_US.UTF-8).


> localhost ~ # localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
>
> localedef is not necessary. Use locale-gen instead.
>
> > localhost ~ # locale-gen
> > * Generating 1 locales (this might take a while)
> > * (1/1) Generating en_US.UTF-8 ... [ ok ] * Generation complete
>
> Which you did - with success.
>
> > localhost ~ # locale -a
> > C
> > en_US.utf8
> > POSIX
> > localhost ~ # env | grep -i LC_
> > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
>
> And your current locale obviously is en_US.UTF-8. So... congrats...
> everything
> is fine. :)
>

Not quite. Please see comments above.


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> Bo Andresen
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Liviu