[gentoo-dev] Additions to the I18n docs

[gentoo-dev] Additions to the I18n docs

[Klavs Klavsen]

Hi guys,

I just went through a new Gentoo installation for one of my machines,
and found the missing I18N info in the install docs very unfortunate.
Luckily someone pointed me to the i18n docs, but IMHO there should be a
link to I18N in the installation docs, as it is a very big part of
getting your system installed to a workable state.

I just read the I18n docs - they are missing quite a bit of info to be
useful.

First off - I DON'T set LANG vars in /etc/rc.conf - that is ugly - and
IMHO not the best way of doing it.

I created a /etc/env.d/02locale file containing:

LC_CTYPE="da_DK"
LESS_CHARSET='iso8859-1'
LC_MEASUREMENT='da_DK'
LC_TIME='da_DK'
LC_MONETARY='da_DK'
LC_NUMERIC='da_DK'
LC_COLLATE='da_DK'
LC_PAPER='da_DK'
LC_NAME='da_DK'
LC_ADDRESS='da_DK'
LC_TELEPHONE='da_DK'
MM_CHARSET=ISO_8859-1
#LANG=da_DK.ISO_8859-1
#LANGUAGE=${LANG}

I uncommented the LANG/LANGUAGE vars, cause then I get danish keyboard,
and programs that can print danish characters - but my system doesn't
start speaking to me in Danish - which I hate - and which also decreases
my chance of being able to google for the answer, based on an error
message.

Especially the LC_CTYPE has haunted me many a times - f.ex. Gaim just
croaked when it got a danish character if I didn't have this var set to
danish characters.

I would suggest that this could be added as an Ebuild for each language
- with the option of keeping the system language to english, while
supporting selected language.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Additions to the I18n docs

[Sven Vermeulen]

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On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:33:41PM +0200, Klavs Klavsen wrote:
> I just went through a new Gentoo installation for one of my machines,
> and found the missing I18N info in the install docs very unfortunate.
> Luckily someone pointed me to the i18n docs, but IMHO there should be a
> link to I18N in the installation docs, as it is a very big part of
> getting your system installed to a workable state.
> 
> I just read the I18n docs - they are missing quite a bit of info to be
> useful.
[...]

Could you please file a bugreport for it? E-mails are very easily neglected
(well, at least by me) while a bugreport stays like a thorn in the eye until
it gets resolved :)

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

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