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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:22:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <itdaij$sm6$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=UrsXbzQ_B3RgP6xu4F+7-8Gmr-w@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/16/2011 06:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Is there a simple explanation concerning the difference between the
> two locales I have seen on Gentoo machines?
>
> 1) /etc/locale, as specified in the installation documents
>
> 2) /etc/env.d/02locale as has been discussed on the list recently

There is no /etc/locale.  I assume you mean /etc/locale.gen.  That one 
only contains the locales for glibc.  You should not specify env vars 
there.  You only list raw locales.  Mine for example has these contents:

   en_US ISO-8859-1
   en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

/etc/env.d/02locale is of a different format.  It's executed as a 
script, so you set your locale-specific env vars there.  You only need 
LANG actually, and possibly LC_COLLATE.  The whole contents of mine:

   LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_COLLATE="C"




  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-16 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-16 15:45 [gentoo-user] /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale? Mark Knecht
2011-06-16 16:22 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-06-16 16:45   ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2011-06-16 16:54     ` Nikos Chantziaras
     [not found] ` <BANLkTikP=J_NeFs-LhYb3RPANhDr74+icg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-06-16 16:23   ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2011-06-16 16:47     ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-06-16 16:56     ` [gentoo-user] " YoYo Siska
     [not found]     ` <BANLkTimqq_f+69OMmDeZGwvBvX349xUCtg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-06-18  0:50       ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-06-18  1:35         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-06-18  1:46         ` Peter Humphrey
2011-06-18 21:03           ` walt
2011-06-19 20:46           ` Walter Dnes
2011-06-19 21:47             ` Peter Humphrey

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