Re: [gentoo-user] openrc update : locale variables are gone

[Mick]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 09:43:39 Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:

> Following the openrc update in gentoo amd64, all locale variables suddenly
> vanished. I created a /etc/env.d/02locale file which includes
> LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8". lyx loads with english menus. It's only after
> exporting LANG from .bashrc that I can launch it from a shell with its
> french menus. To achieve the same effect from KDE menu, I have to set the
> launch command to LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" lyx. My preference would be a global
> setting (as it used to be), as all users on my machine are french. I have
> the same problem with most of the apps.
> Any comments ?

Alain, as I said in my previous post the /etc/env.d/02locale settings do not 
seem to transfer across to user terminals when run in X.  I do not run KDE on 
this machine to see what KDE locale settings are doing ... have you set it to 
use the French language?

Either way, I have noticed that although locale from a user terminal in X 
shows everything as en_GB.UTF-8:

$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8

without me having set it so, the same terminal shows different environment 
variables which correctly coincide with the /etc/env.d/02locale settings:

$ echo $LANG
en_GB.UTF-8

$ echo $LC_TIME
POSIX

$ echo $LC_COLLATE
C

The only odd is the LC_ALL - which I have not set up in my ~/.bashrc or 
02locale files!

$ echo $LC_ALL
en_GB.UTF-8

Perhaps my WM decided to take the LANG variable which happens to be 
en_GB.UTF-8 and apply it to LC_ALL?  The solution for me was to set in 
~/.bashrc:

export LC_ALL=""

Hope this works for your setup too.
-- 
Regards,
Mick