On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:14 PM, smallnow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Edenfield wrote: >> You should have a directory in /usr/share/locale for every locale you >> want available on your system. The source files for the locales should >> be in /usr/share/i18n/locales and /usr/share/i18n/charsets. That is, >> you should have all of the following: >> >> /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US >> /usr/share/i18n/charsets/ISO8859-1 >> /usr/share/i18n/charsets/UTF-8 >> /usr/share/locale/en_US.ISO8859-1 >> /usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8 > > Um, on my system, i have > /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz > /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/IS8859-1.gz > notice charmaps vs charsets > the other folders all have en_US files and folders, no utf8 extensions. And my > locale stuff seems to work fine. Do you actually have those files on your > computer or did you just type them from memory and get them wrong? > I do locale -a and get: > C > POSIX > en_US > en_US.iso88591 > en_US.utf8 > also, I do locale-gen and it succeeds and I don't get any of the files you > mentioned. > > Heres my suggestion to the original poster. I would heed the warning in the > gentoo guide not to set LC_ALL. I also have a lot of other files under those > directories and I would just leave them alone, but if you want to delete them, > just move them so you can move them back later if it doesn't help. I think one > of your problems might be that you need to set all your locale variables in > 02locale. Then do "eselect env update" and relogin. Also you should have 644 > permissions on these files. > > cat /etc/env.d/02locale > LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" > > > cat /etc/locale.gen > > en_US ISO-8859-1 > en_US.utf8 UTF-8 >
You may be correct about setting all of this in 02locale. I noticed that the Gentoo formatting stuff for vi is treating LC_ALL and LC_COLLATE differently than LINGUAS. The manual seems to say set system wide stuff in 02locale and user stuff in your own account. [[ Two minutes later... ]] OK, I changed 02locale and just put your values in. I rane eselect env update, logged out and back in. For the first time locale -a looks good: lightning ~ # locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=POSIX LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL= lightning ~ # locale -a C POSIX en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.utf8 lightning ~ # At this point I may be clean but I'm going to emerge glibc just to be sure. Back later... Cheers, Mark
