Re: [gentoo-user] LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

[Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com>]

On Friday 10 July 2009, Stroller wrote:
> Googling "LC_* environment variables" turns up this doc:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3
>
> I assume this document is correct & up to date?
> (and is not superseded by the LINGUAS="en_GB en" that I have in
> make.conf)
>
> This doc refers to a /etc/env.d/02locale file - I assume I have
> to create that by hand? The file does not exist at present. I
> guess this is the kind of thing I'd kinda expect you to create by
> symlinking to / usr/share/linguas/England or something.
>
> Finally, does anyone have the correct LANG and LC_COLLATE
> settings for the United Kingdom, please? I assume that again
> something starting "en_GB" is used.
>
> Do I need to set ALL LC_* variables (the guide lists 9 of them)
> or just those 2?
>
> This server is headless, so I'm using X11 over ssh - kcontrol's
> left- hand pane is blank.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
>

This is what my 02locale file says:
LANG="en_GB"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_ALL="en_GB"

I set LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to "POSIX" some time ago to make 
konqueror sort the way I expect.

-- 
Peter
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