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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] locales questions
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:22:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612052122.31958.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0612051208s14c6d247r66afb928b8bd3be5@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tuesday 05 December 2006 21:08, Mark Knecht wrote:
>    Hi. I'm sure you're frustrated with me. Sorry. I really am reading
> these docs but there seem to be things I'm not quite understanding or
> things missing from the docs. Probably it's just me. Sorry.

Don't worry about it.. ;P

[SNIP]
> lightning etc # locale -a
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory

I believe those errors means your LANG setting is wrong.

> C
> POSIX
> en_US
> en_US.utf8

It should be one of those 4 settings. And you don't want C or POSIX so either 
LANG="en_US" or LANG="en_US.utf8". If you choose the latter you want to read 
the UTF-8 guide [1]... The former should be ok though.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml

-- 
Bo Andresen

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-05 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-04 18:30 [gentoo-amd64] locales questions Mark Knecht
2006-12-04 18:44 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-12-04 19:33   ` Mark Knecht
2006-12-04 20:12     ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-12-05 20:08       ` Mark Knecht
2006-12-05 20:22         ` Bo Ørsted Andresen [this message]
2006-12-05 21:27           ` Mark Knecht
2006-12-05 21:59             ` Bo Ørsted Andresen

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