From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L9VI8-0004uH-AG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:52:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8EFFE053B; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 01:52:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0AD1E053B for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 01:52:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mB81q6WI025979 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:52:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mB81q0PK009202 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:52:06 -0500 (EST) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EDCA3D3629; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:19:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:19:02 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up Message-ID: <20081208011902.GA32576@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <5bdc1c8b0812071335x51af155cn6a497a0d2449d266@mail.gmail.com> <493C464B.1010205@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0812071517i6ef5804dr2c3f6a5a4c94@mail.gmail.com> <493C65E7.1090607@kutulu.org> <5bdc1c8b0812071642x1776c539j320fa179707f5e67@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0812071642x1776c539j320fa179707f5e67@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 81ff23bc-beda-430f-8376-27c897a76a2f X-Archives-Hash: e1b4167cf20cf8ca91bfd62c9836d784 On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:42:53PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > Thanks for joining in. I have mucho craziness in these directories! > /usr/share/locale has way too much stuff, but it doesn't have what I > want. It's missing en_US.utf8 and en_US.ISO8859-1. Also, all of what I > think are the font files are in a directory called charmaps, not > charsets, like yours: (This is an AMD64 machine so maybe that's part > of the difference?) > > lightning ~ # ls /usr/share/i18n > SUPPORTED charmaps locales > lightning ~ # > > Before I do something stupid, can I erase all this /usr/share stuff > by hand, then re-emerge glibc, rerun locale-gen to get the right > stuff. I suspect that since I had weird settings in make.conf, now > fixed with Dale's help, that now if I re-emerge glibc maybe I'll get > the right stuff? > My apologies for jumping in kind of late in this thread, and I am not sure if you have answered this question already, but what do you have as the content of /etc/locale.gen ? I ask because this is useful prior to you issuing emerge glibc again. Best, W -- "You should be excited by this, because it is an equation you can solve." ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 730 days, 23:59