[gentoo-amd64] locales questions

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

Hi,
   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.

   I unmasked the k3b_beta1.0 package and built it this morning to
look at a new feature. When I start the program I'm getting a message:

System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968
Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode
filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this
has been done intentionally. Most likely the locale is not set at all.
An invalid setting will result in problems when creating data
projects.
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

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml

However my AMD64 machine seems like it's either not set up or set up
for an old version of glibc:

lightning ~ # slocate locales.build
/etc/locales.build
/mnt/gentoo32/etc/locales.build
/usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/files/locales.build
lightning ~ # slocate locales.gen
lightning ~ #

   Do I need to change things like the setup guide would have me do?

   I have no 'LC_' setting in make.conf nor do I see anything obvious
in /etc/conf.d.

   I'm very confused about this stuff anyway. Thanks in advance for being kind.

cheers,
Mark
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