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 1QKUap-0000mM-1Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 May 2011 12:02:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA53F1C058; Thu, 12 May 2011 12:00:41 +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 67C941C058 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 12:00:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 433D27D8025 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 04:00:45 -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 fVCPPq4G3IJk for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 04:00:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.69.4] (wombat.kutulu.org [192.168.69.4]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6847D8024 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 04:00:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DCBCBCD.7000704@kutulu.org> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 08:00:13 -0400 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 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> <4DCAF95A.5060807@kutulu.org> <4DCB12F3.2020007@gmail.com> <4DCB4B11.4030405@kutulu.org> <4DCBA695.8000202@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DCBA695.8000202@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 033849c38481158ec43964666eca261a On 5/12/2011 5:21 AM, Dale wrote: > Mike Edenfield wrote: >> On 5/11/2011 6:51 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Does this look more better? >>> >>> root@fireball / # locale >>> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF8" >>> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF8" >>> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF8" >>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF8" >>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF8" >>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF8" >> The others are for tracking: proper name format (e.g. >> family name first or last); postal address format; >> telephone number format (local, international, etc); units >> of measurement (imperial vs. metric); and the standards >> that govern the rest of the formats. Support for them is >> pretty sketchy and you can probably safely ignore them :) > I wouldn't mind setting them myself. It may not matter much > right now but we all know how things change. Going to see > what Google can find. They're already set, as your locale output showed :) The definitions of those various formats are built into the locale definitions, so they should have the same value as all your other LC_* variables. You can see your locale's idea of what those things mean in the localedef file (bring alone a Unicode character chart): /usr/share/i18n/locale/en_US --Mike