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 1GrIbr-0007Pd-4i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:32:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB4IUDb8027829; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:30:13 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kB4IUDOm001548 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:30:13 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so7098672nfb for ; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:30:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=fq6aYv3CKh+hOaQFFm0UbXVdCxcDl1M6RqZ3T9pDEQYHo18/AiDGrbr5DRzr0DJfC2W8zc/fKQ/SORoBIQ7cnip0ZDp5/ejzvyorK3oeaDSo8/qU0664kc/kok3KIRyWiO0b3TFyGYLkYwoo3axHHXUZuqYF6avCBDUO3u/tpNQ= Received: by 10.82.120.15 with SMTP id s15mr1543211buc.1165257012674; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:30:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.125.9 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:30:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0612041030v2b6e0c5dr23c99a80f432c678@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:30:12 -0800 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] locales questions 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: 1dfb7775-88d0-4da6-8dae-39caff74e33e X-Archives-Hash: a584cc06a48c9e8e9745b94712533c2f 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 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list