Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

[smallnow <smallnow@gmail.com>]

Mike Edenfield wrote:
> You should have a directory in /usr/share/locale for every locale you
> want available on your system.  The source files for the locales should
> be in /usr/share/i18n/locales and /usr/share/i18n/charsets.  That is,
> you should have all of the following:
>
> /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US
> /usr/share/i18n/charsets/ISO8859-1
> /usr/share/i18n/charsets/UTF-8
> /usr/share/locale/en_US.ISO8859-1
> /usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8

Um, on my system, i have
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/IS8859-1.gz
notice charmaps vs charsets
the other folders all have en_US files and folders, no utf8 extensions. And my
locale stuff seems to work fine. Do you actually have those files on your
computer or did you just type them from memory and get them wrong?
I do locale -a and get:
C
POSIX
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
also, I do locale-gen and it succeeds and I don't get any of the files you
mentioned.

Heres my suggestion to the original poster. I would heed the warning in the
gentoo guide not to set LC_ALL. I also have a lot of other files under those
directories and I would just leave them alone, but if you want to delete them,
just move them so you can move them back later if it doesn't help. I think one
of your problems might be that you need to set all your locale variables in
02locale. Then do "eselect env update" and relogin. Also you should have 644
permissions on these files.

 cat /etc/env.d/02locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"


 cat /etc/locale.gen

en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.utf8 UTF-8