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Hi all, |
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I've either made a mistake, or I have a question, or both (or maybe two |
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questions, in that case). |
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I got an update to glibc the other day, and took the opportunity to |
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check my userlocales because they are not always working as I want |
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(basically ISO-8859-15 characters do not always appear under all |
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circumstances). |
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Originally, I had my locales set up as per the documentation at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml |
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in the format |
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en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8 |
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and |
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de_DE@euro/ISO-8859-15 |
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and the like (replacing de_DE with nl_NL, of course), but when I got the |
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glibc upgrade I didn't look at that again, but instead at |
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/etc/locales.build |
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which says |
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# This file names the list of locales to be built when glibc is installed. |
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# The format is <locale>/<charmap>, where <locale> is a locale from the |
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# /usr/share/i18n/locales directory, and <charmap> is name of one of the |
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files |
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# in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. All blank lines and lines starting with |
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# are |
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# ignored. Here is an example: |
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# en_US/ISO-8859-1 |
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So I looked in the referenced directories and here's what I came up with: |
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en_US/ISO-8859-1 |
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en_US/ISO-8859-15 |
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en_US/UTF-8 |
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nl_NL/ISO-8859-1 |
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nl_NL@euro/ISO-8859-1 |
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nl_NL/ISO-8859-15 |
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nl_NL@euro/ISO-8859-15 |
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nl_NL/UTF-8 |
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nl_NL@euro/UTF-8 |
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Glibc built fine (afaict), but my problem is that I now don't know what |
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to export with a LANG variable. |
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For example, if I want nl_NL@euro/UTF-8, how do I export that as opposed |
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to nl_NL@euro/ISO-8859-15 (or worse, ISO-8859-1)? |
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Was I supposed to give the locales individual names as the Localization |
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Guide implies? locales.build doesn't indicate that you can do that (and |
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in fact, I thought perhaps the reason why language exports were mildly |
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borked might be because I had done so). |
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Should I just get rid of the 'extra' locales (ISO-8859-15 and |
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ISO-8859-1)? Since I guess I'm going to try to stick to UTF-8, maybe I |
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don't really need them (I was mostly covering my butt, concerned that my |
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current and future network connections might not support UTF-8, since |
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they're mostly to Windows machines). |
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I guess I've made a mistake, but I'm not quite sure what to do about it. |
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Since fixing it will most almost certainly require a recompile of glibc, |
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and since compiling glibc takes nine-tenths of forever, I'd like to get |
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it on with it as soon as possible (sigh). So any hints would be appreciated. |
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Thanks, |
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Holly |
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