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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding UTF-8 settings
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:52:24 +0200
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Am Sonntag 28 August 2011, 10:51:36 schrieb meino.cramer@gmx.de:
> Hi,
> 
> following this guide:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml
> 
> Doing a
> 
>     locale -a | grep de_DE | grep utf
> 
> I got:
> 
>     de_DE.utf8
> 
> .
> 
> Then I created the file
> 
>     /etc/init.d/02locale
> 
> with the contents:
> 
>     LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8
> 
> . As root I did a
> 
>     rc-update
> 
> , which runs without any error/warning message.
> 
> I sourced
> 
>     /etc/profile
> 
> and did a
> 
>     locale
> 
> . The output was -- despite of what the guide exspected --
> 
> 
> LANG=
> LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8
> LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
> LC_TIME="POSIX"
> LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
> LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
> LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
> LC_PAPER="POSIX"
> LC_NAME="POSIX"
> LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
> LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> Since there is no "what to do if something else happens"-paragraph in
> the guide, I want to ask here, what I am doing wrong...???
> 
> Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> 
> Best regards,
> mcc

why don't you just set:
LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8
and
LANG=de_DE.utf8
and maybe even LANGUAGE
-- 
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