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-You will probably only use one or maybe two locales on your system. You have to -specify locales you will need in /etc/locale.gen. -

- -

-# nano -w /etc/locale.gen
-

- -

-The following locales are an example to get both English (United States) and -German (Germany) with the accompanying character formats (like UTF-8). -

- -

-en_US ISO-8859-1
-en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
-de_DE ISO-8859-1
-de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
-

- - -You can select your desired locales in the list given by running locale -a. - - - -We strongly suggest that you should use at least one UTF-8 locale because some -applications may require it. - - -

-The next step is to run locale-gen. It will generates all the locales you -have specified in the /etc/locale.gen file. -

- -

-# locale-gen
-

- -

-You can verify that your selected locales are available by running locale -a. -

- -

-Once done, you now have the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings. -With eselect locale list, the available targets are displayed: -

- -

-# eselect locale list
-Available targets for the LANG variable:
-  [1] C
-  [2] POSIX
-  [3] en_US
-  [4] en_US.iso88591
-  [5] en_US.utf8
-  [6] de_DE
-  [7] de_DE.iso88591
-  [8] de_DE.iso885915
-  [9] de_DE.utf8
-  [ ] (free form)
-

- -

-With eselect locale set <value> the correct locale can be set: -

- -

-# eselect locale set 9
-

- -

-Manually, this can still be accomplished through the -/etc/env.d/02locale file: -

- -

-LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
-LC_COLLATE="C"
-

- -

-Don't forget to reload your environment: -

- -

-# env-update && source /etc/profile
-

- -

-We made a full Localization -Guide to help you through this process. You can also read the detailed -UTF-8 article for very specific -informations to enable UTF-8 on your system. -

- -

-Please continue with Installing Necessary System -Tools. -

- - - Configuring the Console 1.143 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-system.xml file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-system.xml?rev=1.143&view=markup plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-system.xml?rev=1.143&content-type=text/plain diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-system.xml?r1=1.142&r2=1.143 Index: hb-install-system.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-install-system.xml,v retrieving revision 1.142 retrieving revision 1.143 diff -u -r1.142 -r1.143 --- hb-install-system.xml 19 Dec 2013 07:59:36 -0000 1.142 +++ hb-install-system.xml 19 Dec 2013 10:48:20 -0000 1.143 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ - + @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ to progress to that state. -34 +35 2013-12-19

@@ -461,4 +461,112 @@

+Configure locales + + +

+You will probably only use one or maybe two locales on your system. You have to +specify locales you will need in /etc/locale.gen. +

+ +

+# nano -w /etc/locale.gen
+

+ +

+The following locales are an example to get both English (United States) and +German (Germany) with the accompanying character formats (like UTF-8). +

+ +

+en_US ISO-8859-1
+en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
+de_DE ISO-8859-1
+de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15
+

+ + +You can select your desired locales in the list given by running locale -a. + + + +We strongly suggest that you should use at least one UTF-8 locale because some +applications may require it. + + +

+The next step is to run locale-gen. It will generates all the locales you +have specified in the /etc/locale.gen file. +

+ +

+# locale-gen
+

+ +

+You can verify that your selected locales are available by running locale -a. +

+ +

+Once done, you now have the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings. +With eselect locale list, the available targets are displayed: +

+ +

+# eselect locale list
+Available targets for the LANG variable:
+  [1] C
+  [2] POSIX
+  [3] en_US
+  [4] en_US.iso88591
+  [5] en_US.utf8
+  [6] de_DE
+  [7] de_DE.iso88591
+  [8] de_DE.iso885915
+  [9] de_DE.utf8
+  [ ] (free form)
+

+ +

+With eselect locale set <value> the correct locale can be set: +

+ +

+# eselect locale set 9
+

+ +

+Manually, this can still be accomplished through the +/etc/env.d/02locale file: +

+ +

+LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
+LC_COLLATE="C"
+

+ +

+Make sure a locale is set, as you could otherwise get warnings and errors +during kernel builds and other software deployments later in the installation. +

+ +

+Don't forget to reload your environment: +

+ +

+# env-update && source /etc/profile
+

+ +

+We made a full Localization +Guide to help you through this process. You can also read the detailed +UTF-8 article for very specific +informations to enable UTF-8 on your system. +

+ + +