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 <gentoo-user+bounces-112081-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1OSSpC-0003jF-3B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:41:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2A4CE0899; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C29CE0899 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so154425wyg.40 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:40:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=MPkJsVRRXFKZ5SJz+0+6GDM+bMa+UnMtiAW34EU1dnU=; b=hJ2DkT2NOcWNp/m5o/KV49UG7PxrrjG0rSt9r+ERBSvgIK7fhsLVL48xy+UXdspcGa maqN6q+ZJ9Ebn5afmkg7orgI5p8HSabjU1JQ7b7YWkzw/y7WXz6K9MSz/6r2yh9PA6dH 7tDP2KMw2LMb/zRxO6UN6yPaBeYgnjTNWUKpk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=UTjD4NTwdoQFY6uVcSuaB5bDrCm0GQ/QDufu6QSWgXOgREVadF2o7DH143z8N9rXjZ Jb8fyVZIjZzz9tRHuZjPiEefZjsYWQ4XxQhZN1NlUf/B2GdNW95ZlalFqVlWc4UBWS3N rSGWpJ7L9WW/W4zdeuBzaU1IKyTmBTOZxA3os= Received: by 10.216.158.85 with SMTP id p63mr1507924wek.67.1277548831610; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n61sm3158062wed.6.2010.06.26.03.40.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:40:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:40:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.33-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.4.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <1277169274.32558.6.camel@ianto-gentoo-amd.home> <AANLkTilGxseqoOcCB1frQbKgLqVg1H-m-umrQTecN3BB@mail.gmail.com> <1277223253.1816.3.camel@tonmawr> In-Reply-To: <1277223253.1816.3.camel@tonmawr> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart32773027.A5bXof1AGD"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201006261140.23888.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 027f216a-e49b-4546-a378-55486db5738b X-Archives-Hash: 26e363692f25230017783db07d984cf2 --nextPart32773027.A5bXof1AGD Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday 22 June 2010 17:14:13 Christopher Swift wrote: > Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: > > I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: > >=20 > > I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why running 'locale' > > as a plain user shows: > >=20 > > $ locale > > LANG=3Den_US.UTF-8 > > LC_CTYPE=3D"en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_NUMERIC=3D"en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_TIME=3D"en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_COLLATE=3D"en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_MONETARY=3D"en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_MESSAGES=3D"en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_PAPER=3D"en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_NAME=3D"en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_ADDRESS=3D"en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_TELEPHONE=3D"en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_MEASUREMENT=3D"en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_IDENTIFICATION=3D"en_US.UTF-8" > > LC_ALL=3Den_US.UTF-8 > >=20 > > why when running it as root: > >=20 > > # locale > > LANG=3D > > LC_CTYPE=3D"POSIX" > > LC_NUMERIC=3D"POSIX" > > LC_TIME=3D"POSIX" > > LC_COLLATE=3D"POSIX" > > LC_MONETARY=3D"POSIX" > > LC_MESSAGES=3D"POSIX" > > LC_PAPER=3D"POSIX" > > LC_NAME=3D"POSIX" > > LC_ADDRESS=3D"POSIX" > > LC_TELEPHONE=3D"POSIX" > > LC_MEASUREMENT=3D"POSIX" > > LC_IDENTIFICATION=3D"POSIX" > > LC_ALL=3D > >=20 > >=20 > > I do not have set a /etc/env.d/02locale yet, so where is my plain user > > locale being read from? >=20 > Your plain user locale is usually read from ~/.bashrc, this can be set > to en_GB by having the following lines: > export LANG=3D"en_GB.UTF-8" > export LC_COLLATE=3D"C" I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain user loca= le=20 reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale? I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user still show= s=20 all settings as "en_US.UTF-8" ... where is this US setting read from? Thanks, =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart32773027.A5bXof1AGD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkwl2RcACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaRVACgjdA9V1iGgtPtnlGXVuXxkuxu gyUAmwbzQUUf55EKDbft+EG4oUP55wbI =aauP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart32773027.A5bXof1AGD--