From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKqUQ-0003d0-G5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:11:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56A20E0333; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thenybble.de (thenybble.de [87.230.95.74]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27FC8E0333 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mnch-5d85ab8f.pool.einsundeins.de ([93.133.171.143] helo=venus.thenybble.de) by thenybble.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KKqUL-0007CX-Hl; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:11:21 +0200 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:11:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87bq0rlkqv.wl%jan.seeger@thenybble.de> From: "Jan Seeger" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C In-Reply-To: <20080721060258.27AE.0.NOFFLE@turbacz.local> References: <20080719183723.2115.0.NOFFLE@turbacz.local> <200807192259.29027.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <20080720091506.24A0.0.NOFFLE@turbacz.local> <200807201643.40969.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <20080721060258.27AE.0.NOFFLE@turbacz.local> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.5 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) 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 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: 9733a197-9e88-496e-aa20-72187aa68043 X-Archives-Hash: ff73b0ed0ff8c374ef34c1cc023f5d80 At Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:02:58 +0200, Miernik wrote: > Anyway, why is this we have to choose a territory for our language, I do > not live in any english-speaking territory, nor it is Denmark, and I > don't want to put on my computer on what territory I live, as it is none > of it's business. Couldn't there be something like POSIX.UTF-8 locale, > or maybe make the POSIX locale be UTF-8 by default? Or C.UTF-8 > I would be very happy not having to put any specific country in the > settings of my computer. Why? Are you planning on moving?^^ But have you tried POSIX.UTF-8? Because it sounds sensible, and thus could be already implemented. > And ordering of date - what does that have to do with territory and > language? I don't care what territory has what ordering commonly used - > I want to have it in form 2008-07-19, is there a way to do it? That's just a shortcut, so you don't have to set every setting explicitly. If you want, just set the respective LC_* variables, for example LC_TIME for the right time format. -- Four bits at a time www.thenybble.de