Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Bruce Hill
<daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 02:53:11PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Chris Stankevitz
>> <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am using svn to update a repository.  Somebody added files to the
>> > repository with weird characters in the filename.  SVN refuses to
>> > update the respository unless I first:
>> >
>> > export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>> >
>> > I don't know or really care what that mumbo jumbo means, but I would
>> > like an answer to this question:
>> >
>> > Is my gentoo system properly setup?  If not, what step did I miss that
>> > is causing svn to want me to export LC_CTYPE?
>> >
>> > I suspect either my gentoo system is messed up or svn is messed up.
>> >
>>
>> Sparing you the details as requested: In general, you want to be using
>> a locale that ends with ".UTF-8" to avoid encoding issues with
>> software like python and subversion.
>>
>> The handbook documents setting a system-wide default locale. You
>> generally do this by setting the LANG variable in
>> /etc/conf.d/02locale.
>>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=8#doc_chap3_sect3
>
> Without looking, shouldn't that be /etc/env.d/02locale ?

Yes.

Or /etc/locale.conf if you're on systemd.