From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPP7J-0002PB-MS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:02:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BD8FE040A; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:02:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mk-outboundfilter-6.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-outboundfilter-6.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.14]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBAF2E040A for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:02:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Trace: 121180350/mk-outboundfilter-6.mail.uk.tiscali.com/PIPEX/$PIPEX-ACCEPTED/pipex-customers/81.86.110.137/None/peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 81.86.110.137 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com X-SMTP-AUTH: aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com X-MUA: KMail/1.9.9 X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvIEAFFlV0pRVm6J/2dsb2JhbACBUc5IhAgFhl8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,380,1243810800"; d="scan'208";a="121180350" X-IP-Direction: OUT Received: from 81-86-110-137.dsl.pipex.com (HELO mesh.ruskin) ([81.86.110.137]) by smtp.pipex.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 11 Jul 2009 00:02:47 +0100 From: Peter Ruskin Organization: Retired To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LC_ locale settings for UK / GB. Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:02:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <6DF38B2C-68C3-4B3A-8AC2-9F4E1990218A@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6DF38B2C-68C3-4B3A-8AC2-9F4E1990218A@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> X-No-Archive: yes 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907110002.32848.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> X-Archives-Salt: e68bca20-0c7b-4fdc-bfd3-963e80957867 X-Archives-Hash: 81e5bb2f08a5c939f8bd7d8a103d71e4 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 (and is not superseded by the LINGUAS="en_GB en" that I have in 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 ======================================================================== Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc33 kernel-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ gcc(Gentoo: 4.3.2-r3 KDE: 3.5.9 Qt: 3.3.8b ========================================================================