Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > > When I crank up K3b, it complains about my setup, with the message
> > > >
> > > >     "System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968
> > > >     Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode
> > > > filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this
> > > > has been done intentionally.
> > > >     Most likely the locale is not set at     all. An invalid setting
> > > > will result in problems when creating data projects.
> > > >     Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_*
> > > > environment variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools
> > > > take care of this."
> > > >
> > > > It is correct that this is not intentional (it does seem antique).  I
> > >
> > > have
> > >
> > > > configured .mybashrc to set my LANG to "en_US", but nothing beyond
> > > > that. What "distribution setup tools" is it referring to, so that I
> can
> > > > correct this on gentoo?
> > >
> > > What have you set up in your /etc/locale.gen ?
> >
> > I won't take credit for setting this up, because I don't think I did.  On
> > the other hand,
> > I've had occasion to internationalize a web page to dutch and polish,
> which
> > appear
> > in the list.  So I dunno where it came from.
> >
> > But here's what's there:
> >
> > # /etc/locale.gen: list all of the locales you want to have on your
> system
> > #
> > # The format of each line:
> > # <locale> <charmap>
> > #
> > # Where <locale> is a locale located in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ and
> > # where <charmap> is a charmap located in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/.
> > #
> > # All blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored.
> > #
> > # For the default list of supported combinations, see the file:
> > # /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
> > #
> > # Whenever glibc is emerged, the locales listed here will be
> automatically
> > # rebuilt for you.  After updating this file, you can simply run
> > `locale-gen`
> > # yourself instead of re-emerging glibc.
> >
> > en_US ISO-8859-1
> > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> > #ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP
> > #ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8
> > #ja_JP EUC-JP
> > #en_HK ISO-8859-1
> > #en_PH ISO-8859-1
> > #de_DE ISO-8859-1
> > #de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
> > es_MX ISO-8859-1
> > #fa_IR UTF-8
> > fr_FR ISO-8859-1
> > fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15
> > #it_IT ISO-8859-1
> > pl_PL ISO-8859-15
>
> This looks fine.  If when you run $ locale you get a list with LANG=en_US
> but
> further down LC_ALL=   (blank), then set export LC_ALL=xxx in your .bashrc
> to
> whatever you want your locale set to.
>

Halfway there.  I did that, and now "locale" looks like

kevin@treat ~ $ locale
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=en_US
kevin@treat ~ $

However, when I start k3b from the KDE menus, it still complains.

On the other hand, if I start k3b from the shell that gives the "locale"
results above,
it starts clean.  So the issue seems to be that I need to inform KDE about
the
locale.

I did a fresh boot, and that did not help, so I wonder if .mybashrc is the
correct
place to do this.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD