Re: [gentoo-amd64] locales questions

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

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On Tuesday 05 December 2006 22:27, Mark Knecht wrote:
> However I still have C and POSIX. Where might those be coming from?

That's fine.

> > 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
>
> The reason that I *think* I want UTF-8 is that I've had trouble
> ripping CDs having certain French and German characters in sing names
> then having them be recognized by other programs such as Aqualung.

So read and follow the UTF-8 guide.

> One other locale question. I've started needing to reboot this machine
> into Windows more often so that my son and his freinds can play LAN
> games against each other. Is the only thing required to do that is to
> set the clock setting to "local"? I set it that way but haven't had
> time to do multiple reboots to test it.

That's not really a locale question. But yes CLOCK="local" should do the job.

-- 
Bo Andresen

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