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On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 06/16/2011 06:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the |
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>> two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines? |
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>> 1) /etc/locale, as specified in the installation documents |
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>> 2) /etc/env.d/02locale as has been discussed on the list recently |
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> There is no /etc/locale. I assume you mean /etc/locale.gen. |
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I did. thanks. |
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> That one only |
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> contains the locales for glibc. You should not specify env vars there. You |
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> only list raw locales. Mine for example has these contents: |
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> en_US ISO-8859-1 |
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> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 |
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As does mine. |
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> /etc/env.d/02locale is of a different format. It's executed as a script, so |
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> you set your locale-specific env vars there. You only need LANG actually, |
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> and possibly LC_COLLATE. The whole contents of mine: |
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> LANG="en_US.UTF-8" |
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> LC_COLLATE="C" |
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I had the first line but not the second which I've added. |
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I think the root of my question is really the (possibly) unfortunately |
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use of the word 'locale' for the glibc stuff. I understand the concept |
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of locales for the system and users, but why does glibc need locales |
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which are possibly different from those in use on a system by users? |
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I can make up reasons, like someone from Japan logs into my server to |
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do work and needs something to use Japanese locales, but he could |
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likely set those up in .bashrc or something. What is glibc doing with |
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them? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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