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On Thursday 25 January 2007 07:41, Mick wrote: |
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> > (5) I found the installation of locales and keymaps. None of the |
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> > available locales had "UTF-8" in their names, even though some of the |
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> > suggested ones did. Should I presume that the UTF-8 adaptation is |
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> > created by the locale generating software? What I want is a system that |
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> > uses UTF-8 internally and keyboards and consoles that accept input in |
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> > several languages -- English, French, math, Japanese, and mathematics. I |
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> > guesses some entries and went on -- confident that this can be fixed |
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> > after installation. |
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> You need to edit /etc/locale.gen and add something like e.g. en_GB.UTF-8 |
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> UTF-8 (the file is well commented with instructions) and then run |
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> locale-gen or re-emerge glibc. |
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Remerging glibc just to get it to run locale-gen seems very silly. (Yes, |
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before locale-gen was created remerging glibc was the easiest way to do |
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this). And yes, this can be easily be done following the utf-8 guide |
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whenever... |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml |
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Bo Andresen |
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