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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:58:05
Message-Id: 20130805185757.GP25510@server
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 by Mike Gilbert
1 On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 02:53:11PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Chris Stankevitz
3 > <chrisstankevitz@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > > Hello,
5 > >
6 > > I am using svn to update a repository. Somebody added files to the
7 > > repository with weird characters in the filename. SVN refuses to
8 > > update the respository unless I first:
9 > >
10 > > export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
11 > >
12 > > I don't know or really care what that mumbo jumbo means, but I would
13 > > like an answer to this question:
14 > >
15 > > Is my gentoo system properly setup? If not, what step did I miss that
16 > > is causing svn to want me to export LC_CTYPE?
17 > >
18 > > I suspect either my gentoo system is messed up or svn is messed up.
19 > >
20 >
21 > Sparing you the details as requested: In general, you want to be using
22 > a locale that ends with ".UTF-8" to avoid encoding issues with
23 > software like python and subversion.
24 >
25 > The handbook documents setting a system-wide default locale. You
26 > generally do this by setting the LANG variable in
27 > /etc/conf.d/02locale.
28 >
29 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=8#doc_chap3_sect3
30
31 Without looking, shouldn't that be /etc/env.d/02locale ?
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Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>