Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 02:53:11PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Chris Stankevitz
> <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using svn to update a repository.  Somebody added files to the
> > repository with weird characters in the filename.  SVN refuses to
> > update the respository unless I first:
> >
> > export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > I don't know or really care what that mumbo jumbo means, but I would
> > like an answer to this question:
> >
> > Is my gentoo system properly setup?  If not, what step did I miss that
> > is causing svn to want me to export LC_CTYPE?
> >
> > I suspect either my gentoo system is messed up or svn is messed up.
> >
> 
> Sparing you the details as requested: In general, you want to be using
> a locale that ends with ".UTF-8" to avoid encoding issues with
> software like python and subversion.
> 
> The handbook documents setting a system-wide default locale. You
> generally do this by setting the LANG variable in
> /etc/conf.d/02locale.
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=8#doc_chap3_sect3
 
Without looking, shouldn't that be /etc/env.d/02locale ?
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