[gentoo-user] Re: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C

[Miernik <public@public.miernik.name>]

Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de> wrote:
> Are you sure these files are really utf8 files? What does the "file"
> command tell you about those files. Maybe you need to run iconv on
> them, first.
> 
>> , and starting an xterm still shows "Warning: locale not supported by
>> Xlib, locale set to C".  Only now "locale" command shows the
>> lowercase version.
> 
> This is a different thing, look at
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90972

Well, it was all the problem of having en_DK, I changed it to
en_US.UTF-8 and all works OK now. However I wanted _DK to have the
locale date in the form 2008-07-19 and not 07/21/2008.

Anyway, why is this we have to choose a territory for our language, I do
not live in any english-speaking territory, nor it is Denmark, and I
don't want to put on my computer on what territory I live, as it is none
of it's business. Couldn't there be something like POSIX.UTF-8 locale,
or maybe make the POSIX locale be UTF-8 by default? Or C.UTF-8
I would be very happy not having to put any specific country in the
settings of my computer.

And ordering of date - what does that have to do with territory and
language? I don't care what territory has what ordering commonly used -
I want to have it in form 2008-07-19, is there a way to do it?

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Miernik
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