On Friday 19 June 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> > On Donnerstag 18 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > I have LANG=de_DE.utf8@euro set now, before it was unset. Those umlaut
> >
> > btw
> > use either de_DE@euro or de_DE.UTF8
>
> Oh, thanks.
>
> I got this setting from the gentoo localization guide (the google cache
> still shows that version), which now suggests using LANG="de_DE.UTF-8
> UTF-8" - any idea why the second UTF-8 would be necessary? It's described
> in the german version only. I have it set to de_DE.UTF8 now.

I think that the localization guide refers to /etc/locale.gen which uses the 
format:

<locale> <charmap>

So, de_DE.UTF-8 is the locale (as shown in /usr/share/i18n/locales/) and UTF-8 
is the character map (as shown in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/).
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Regards,
Mick