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 I'm helping a Windows friend bring up his first Gentoo box. With the locale set in /etc/locale as per the install docs the locale command returns: (from the chroot) (chroot) livecd linux # cat /etc/locale.gen <SNIP> en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 (chroot) livecd linux # locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= (chroot) livecd linux # However on my machines it did the same thing until I set 02locale and now it returns: mark@c2stable ~ $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF8" LC_ALL= mark@c2stable ~ $ It seems to me the latter is preferable but the install docs don't talk about it at all. Thanks, Mark
