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