Re: [gentoo-amd64] locales questions

["Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>]

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On Monday 04 December 2006 19:30, Mark Knecht wrote:
>    I don't understand locales, or not really. I get that they say
> something about where the machine is running and what character
> set/sets the machine should use, but that's as far as I go with it.
> It's never been much of a problem.
[SNIP]
> Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_*
> environment variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools
> take care of this.
>
>    I'm going back looking at the Gentoo Quick Install Guide. It talks
> about locales.build and locales.gen for recent version of glibc.
> Section 2.37 at
[SNIP]

It's properly covered in the Gentoo Localization Guide [1]. You need to 
move/convert your locales.build to a locale.gen, run `locale-gen` and make 
sure it doesn't generate any errors and set LANG in /etc/env.d/02locale...

If you need help you will have to post the contents of locale.gen and the 
output of `locale-gen`.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml

-- 
Bo Andresen

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