Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS, L10N, and local-gen

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 24/06/2016 22:09, Dale wrote:
> allan gottlieb wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 24 2016, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>>> On 24/06/2016 16:06, allan gottlieb wrote:
>>>> Having read the latest news article and rereading parts of the
>>>> localization guide, it is not clear to me what action, if any, I need to
>>>> take.
>>>>
>>>> My systems are US English only
>>>>
>>>> /etc/portage/make.conf has
>>>>     LINGUAS="en"
>>>>
>>>> /etc/local.gen has just comments plus
>>>>     en_US ISO-8859-1
>>>>     en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
>>>>
>>>> Should I add
>>>>     L10N="en-US"
>>>> to /etc/portage/make.conf ?
>>>>
>>>> Should I run local-gen ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> allan
>>>>
>>> Add
>>>
>>> L10N="en" to make.conf
>> Thanks.  Done.  Update world just generated
>>
>>     [ebuild   R    ] app-text/texlive-2014  L10N="en*"
>>
>> all seems well.  Thanks again.
>> allan
>>
>>
>
> While I added what Alan posted, I also had to leave the others.  The
> relevant part of my make.conf looks like this:
>
> LANG="en_US"
> LC_ALL="en_US.UTF8"
> LINGUAS="en_US"
> L10N="en en_US"

L10N="en en-US"


local derivatives of languages like en_GB, en_za have been tweaked 
according to the referenced new standard. Mostly it's little more than
s/_/-/g

LINGUAS and L10N must always logically match


>
> I tried to comment out the others but emerge always came back wanting to
> remove some language.
>
> YMMV
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>