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On Friday 19 June 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann writes: |
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> > On Donnerstag 18 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > > I have LANG=de_DE.utf8@euro set now, before it was unset. Those umlaut |
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> > btw |
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> > use either de_DE@euro or de_DE.UTF8 |
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> Oh, thanks. |
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> I got this setting from the gentoo localization guide (the google cache |
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> still shows that version), which now suggests using LANG="de_DE.UTF-8 |
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> UTF-8" - any idea why the second UTF-8 would be necessary? It's described |
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> in the german version only. I have it set to de_DE.UTF8 now. |
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I think that the localization guide refers to /etc/locale.gen which uses the |
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format: |
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<locale> <charmap> |
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So, de_DE.UTF-8 is the locale (as shown in /usr/share/i18n/locales/) and UTF-8 |
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is the character map (as shown in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/). |
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Regards, |
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Mick |