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

[Mick]

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 ?

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Regards,
Mick