From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F8A21381F3 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:52:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C529E0AA2; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-f49.google.com (mail-oa0-f49.google.com [209.85.219.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43F20E094E for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:52:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id n10so7434360oag.8 for ; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:52:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=7h7DuaQ2zYAFcvz57hkpPmQuAsCl24suPENQuZzK5HU=; b=T1k5mIVEVMFl1ZMG6jKGfAu8nYvN8OBenr2sCabJaqNNzo+lesTyztafVfwXAsqZ2N RWmRdQpqY2kdtZWzNahbWjXJ1NZw72a9ZqUInO4MfXAlFoDIMXCSTxjPobc7AC5XDcOU 6InalDWtUIG9bhXNe4QOnKCBn/Q+oGnnGI6ozew5B/oCrjXDgZFJHIqW/BQu6ZLsfz9q aQoKWBvCnsm6luhAOWwJKXIMvNc1eSYOF4CrjEDyv31pYvuR4/LJtFRzT5Gnf6YmbaWB 9X1HKVfDqES/hFfEHRjilxT83ZBR1SN877+KYjeKbgBdikC8EtB9wTmLS7ul3BcGzkqo Uu9w== 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 X-Received: by 10.43.168.67 with SMTP id nh3mr1787921icc.33.1375743133246; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:52:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.43.76.134 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 15:52:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 15:52:13 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 From: Chris Stankevitz To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 61b9d901-6854-4f6d-95ed-154f72c963e9 X-Archives-Hash: 296aba992480dd8d5d7a5fc9e21e318b On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > 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 Mike, Thank you for your help. I attempted to follow these instructions and ran into three problems. Can you please confirm the fixes I employed to deal with each of these issues: 1. The handbook suggests I should modify the file /etc/env.d/02locale, but that file does not exist on my system. RESOLUTION: create the file 2. The handbook suggests I should add this line to /etc/env.d/02locale: 'LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"', but I do not speak the language "DE". RESOLUTION: type instead 'LANG="en_US.UTF-8"' to match /etc/locale.gen 3. The handbook suggests that I should add this line to /etc/env.d/02locale: 'LC_COLLATE="C"', but I do not know if they are again talking about the language "DE". RESOLUTION: I assumed LC_COLLATE=C refers to english and added the line without modification. Thank you again for your help, Chris