[gentoo-amd64] latest k3b and system locale

[gentoo-amd64] latest k3b and system locale

[Mark Haney]

I upgraded to the latest k3b on Friday (1.0.4) and I really like the
interface and all, but when I run it I get this:

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 noticed on the notes after the upgrade that k3bsetup isn't included in
the ebuild now.  So, my question is, how do I fix this, or is it even a
problem?


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[gentoo-amd64] Re: latest k3b and system locale

[Duncan]

"Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
478228DA.3030701@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Mon, 07 Jan 2008
08:27:54 -0500:

> I upgraded to the latest k3b on Friday (1.0.4) and I really like the
> interface and all, but when I run it I get this:
> 
> System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 [snip]
> 
> I noticed on the notes after the upgrade that k3bsetup isn't included in
> the ebuild now.  So, my question is, how do I fix this, or is it even a
> problem?

I've been getting the same error here for awhile, but it doesn't seem to 
be a problem.  It's possible it'd be a problem if I were sharing the 
stuff I burned with folks trying to use it on MSWormOS, but otherwise, it 
shouldn't be, and I've had no complaints on the couple I did burn for 
MSWormOS using folks either, so it doesn't seem to be an issue.  It may 
also be a bit of an issue for anyone using multiple languages and 
character-sets, I'm not sure as I only use English.

If you were to fix it, however, it'd be by setting your i18n/l10n 
(internationalization/localization) settings properly.  As I only do 
English, I don't know a whole lot about that, but from what I've read, 
there were some issues related to that with a recent version of glibc, 
but I thought they were fixed, now, but you and I might still have a bad 
version merged, or something else that builds against them that k3b uses 
merged.  It may be as simple as setting an environmental variable 
correctly, or it might be k3b's detection screwed up.  I don't know.

I do know it hasn't seemed to cause any issues here, tho, so I haven't 
worried about it.  YMMV, of course.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest k3b and system locale

[Richard Freeman]

Mark Haney wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

As far as I can tell it doesn't have any negative impact.  It looks like
it wants the LC_* environment vars set - which maybe should be set by
baselayout or something.  I imagine it is just a non-ideality unless you
are using foreign character sets (in which case you likely know more
about locales than I do!).

Is anybody around here knowledgeable about locales/etc?

> I noticed on the notes after the upgrade that k3bsetup isn't included in
> the ebuild now.  So, my question is, how do I fix this, or is it even a
> problem?
> 

I believe the message indicated that it wasn't included because it was
no-longer needed.  So you shouldn't need to do anything.  This utility
checks executable/device permissions and adjusts them so that users can
burn discs.   Apparently gentoo's permissions now work out-of-the-box.

Oh - one thing I did notice about the new k3b is that you might want to
turn on auto-blanking of rewritable media.  While testing this package I
was able to get it to create a DVD with leftover directory entries from
the previous image (which didn't work - the directory entries were there
but the files were not - ls showed them in flashing red).

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest k3b and system locale

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Montag, 7. Januar 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
>
> I noticed on the notes after the upgrade that k3bsetup isn't included in
> the ebuild now.  So, my question is, how do I fix this, or is it even a
> problem?
>

k3bsetup is not installed anymore because our super-devs think it is not 
needed anymore... and you don't need it for this 'problem'

locales are set either in
/etc/env.d/02lang
(mine looks like this:
LC_ALL=de_DE@euro
LANG=de_DE@euro
LINGUAS="de")

or in
/etc/bash/bashrc

or in 
~/.bashrc
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest k3b and system locale

[Richard Freeman]

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> locales are set either in
> /etc/env.d/02lang
> (mine looks like this:
> LC_ALL=de_DE@euro
> LANG=de_DE@euro
> LINGUAS="de")
> 

Can you post the output of qfile /etc/env.d/02lang ?

That is my one pet-peeve with gentoo - there is no easy way to find out 
where to get a file you need if all you know is the filename.  There 
used to be portage file search (an outside effort), but that seems to be 
down these days.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest k3b and system locale

[Brett Johnson]

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On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:43:08AM -0500, Richard Freeman wrote:
> 
>  Can you post the output of qfile /etc/env.d/02lang ?
> 
/etc/env.d/02lang is not in any package. You can read about it here:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest k3b and system locale

[Eric Augustus]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:27:54AM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> I noticed on the notes after the upgrade that k3bsetup isn't included in
> the ebuild now.  So, my question is, how do I fix this, or is it even a
> problem?
> 

The k3b ebuild post-install message says:

    We don't install k3bsetup anymore because Gentoo doesn't need it.
    If you get warnings on start-up, uncheck the "Check system
    configuration" option in the "Misc" settings window.

I did this and I don't get the warning anymore. I've burned a few data
cds since and haven't had any issues; even with M$ folks.


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