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 1QKGa1-0002b7-EO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 21:04:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B87EB1C027; Wed, 11 May 2011 21:02:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from basement.kutulu.org (187.250.102.97.cfl.res.rr.com [97.102.250.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FCCB1C04E for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 21:02:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C03A7D8025 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 13:02:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kutulu.org Received: from basement.kutulu.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HrcJ7XKg08Bi for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 13:02:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.100.84] (173.221.47.98.nw.nuvox.net [173.221.47.98]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CF5B97D8024 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 13:02:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DCAF95A.5060807@kutulu.org> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 17:02:18 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone? References: <4DC9B435.9010308@gmail.com> <4DC9BF0A.6040800@wonkology.org> <4DC9C5F0.4000303@gmail.com> <20110511003835.71388717@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4DC9CF35.7010503@gmail.com> <4DCA821F.8050904@gmail.com> <4DCA91D1.50505@gmail.com> <4DCAAE6E.9030809@gmail.com> <4DCABF2D.1090307@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DCABF2D.1090307@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 423d148dc3ad29d18122d115dd956cf6 On 5/11/2011 12:54 PM, Dale wrote: > root@fireball / # locale -a > C > POSIX > en_US > en_US.iso88591 > en_US.utf8 So you have three locales installed (C and POSIX are internal and always present) that are the same language and region with different character sets. You probably don't need to do this anymore, since most every modern application can handle UTF-8 character data and, even if it can't, UTF-8 data looks identical to US-ASCII data for most English language text. > root@fireball / # locale > LANG= > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" > LC_TIME="POSIX" > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > LC_MONETARY="POSIX" > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" > LC_PAPER="POSIX" > LC_NAME="POSIX" > LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" > LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" > LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" > LC_ALL= > root@fireball / # This means that your UTF-8 setup is clearly *not* working :) Your locale is not being set anywhere, it's using the glibc default of POSIX. POSIX is approximately equal to en_US as far as date/time, sorting, etc. but lacks most of the numeric formatting (no currency symbol, no thousands separator, etc). It's also using the default US-ASCII character set. --Mike