From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GrIpV-0006Ne-7S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:46:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB4IiE2g010367; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:44:14 GMT Received: from shuttle.zlin.dk (port78.ds1-abs.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.227.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kB4IiDCj000375 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:44:13 GMT Received: from BA.zlin.dk (unknown [10.0.0.3]) by shuttle.zlin.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902B530037 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:44:13 +0100 (CET) From: Bo =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] locales questions Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:44:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <5bdc1c8b0612041030v2b6e0c5dr23c99a80f432c678@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0612041030v2b6e0c5dr23c99a80f432c678@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2313066.xk9QPTm1AW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200612041944.11065.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: 14323f9c-c491-49fb-9322-8b7c70e48d27 X-Archives-Hash: 4837e0e6df3312ee648e975a530e4dda --nextPart2313066.xk9QPTm1AW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 move/convert your locales.build to a locale.gen, run `locale-gen` and make= =20 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=20 output of `locale-gen`. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart2313066.xk9QPTm1AW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFdGx68/kKEzmwNNoRAlBlAJ4ywx8Lm+kIPodYyRhEgFsfkF2V8ACeNV17 OT+YRf1kUMqNah8p0OwflUg= =OvSx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2313066.xk9QPTm1AW-- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list