Re: [gentoo-user] SNIP warning: setlocale: LC_ALL error

["Jc García" <jyo.garcia@gmail.com>]

2014-07-17 21:55 GMT-06:00 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:

> I got that off a howto somewhere.  I think it is a Gentoo one.  Anyway,
> commented all that out and left the one line, ran locale-gen and it
> seems to have fixed it.  Keep in mind, it's been that way for quite a
> long time.  No clue why it decides to moan about it now.
>
Well that is suprising, since the contents you have on that file are
totally wrong, locale.gen(5) manpage explicitly states the syntax for
that file is:
<locale> <charset>
example:
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
The man page also points you to the directories in /usr/share/i18n/
wich are locales/ and charmaps/ with the list of the ones available
for Gentoo, and also a convenient file named 'SUPPORTED' which tells
itself a list of what it has inside.
Also a the file alredy in the /etc/locale.gen in the stage3, has some
examples, since en_US.UTF-8 is the second example (and that's your
locale) you just need to uncomment that and run locale-gen.
Also LANG is an environment variable it has nothing to do in there.
PD: the manpages have the best supported answers, look at it before
going to random howtos online, its already at your installation
anyway.

> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>