Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Sunday, 13 June 2021 15:11:18 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> All,
> 
> On Sunday, 2021-06-13 15:39:46 +0200, I myself wrote:
> > ...
> > 
> > > > $ sudo locale
> > > > LANG=en_GB.utf8
> > > > ...
> > 
> > Erm,  is there a difference between  "*.utf8" and "*.UTF-8"?   Does case
> > matter?
> 
> Apparently yes.   At least  for Perl  or anything else  used by Portage.
> Running my package upgrade script again after setting
> 
>    $ export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> 
> just succeeded.  "As soon as you're doing it right,  it just works". :-)
> But what exactly is the difference?
> 
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer

If you have a look at the comments in /etc/locale.gen it explains where to 
find suitable notation for locale name, charset, and it also provides a 
default list of supported combinations:

/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED

In there we find:

$ grep -i en_gb /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_GB ISO-8859-1

I recall in the past having had a similar problem and as you say, once you set 
it up correctly it just works.  :-)  I don't know what the difference is 
between lower/upper case notation for the charset, but having set it up in 
capitals seems to work here.  Note, I don't have any lower case charset in /
etc/locale.gen.

$ eselect locale list
Available targets for the LANG variable:
  [1]   C
  [2]   C.utf8
  [3]   POSIX
[snip ... ]
  [7]   en_GB
  [8]   en_GB.iso88591
  [9]   en_GB.utf8
  [10]  en_US
  [11]  en_US.iso88591
  [12]  en_US.utf8
  [13]  en_GB.UTF-8 *
  [ ]   (free form)


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