[gentoo-user] locale nightmare
After much labor, I managed to clean my system (i.e., revdep-rebuild -p is happy). However, I started having locale problems (which I hadn't formerly). It shows up with perl and vim. I want the system to recognize Portuguese accented characters but otherwise to use English as general language (meaning the language used in error messages in bash, etc). I didn't have the file /etc/env.d/02locale (can't imagine why). $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TYPE=pt_PT.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=[EMAIL PROTECTED] I followed (more or less) http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_UTF-8_enabled_system (It says LC_ALL=it_IT.UTF-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] but isn't this wrong? man locale says LC_ALL overrides LC_*, if I understood correctly.) Well, perl is not happy: $ perl -e perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_MONETARY = [EMAIL PROTECTED], LC_TYPE = pt_PT.UTF-8, LANG = en_US.ISO-8859-1 are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C) Writing in vim gives all sorts of silly output. What to do? Something to emerge? Some kernel config problem? Why didn't /etc/env.d/02locale exist? I compiled glibc without the userlocales USE variable, so all locales should exist... -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] locale nightmare
Jorge Almeida wrote: After much labor, I managed to clean my system (i.e., revdep-rebuild -p is happy). However, I started having locale problems (which I hadn't formerly). It shows up with perl and vim. I want the system to recognize Portuguese accented characters but otherwise to use English as general language (meaning the language used in error messages in bash, etc). I didn't have the file /etc/env.d/02locale (can't imagine why). $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_TYPE=pt_PT.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=[EMAIL PROTECTED] I followed (more or less) http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_UTF-8_enabled_system (It says LC_ALL=it_IT.UTF-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] but isn't this wrong? man locale says LC_ALL overrides LC_*, if I understood correctly.) Well, perl is not happy: $ perl -e perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_MONETARY = [EMAIL PROTECTED], LC_TYPE = pt_PT.UTF-8, LANG = en_US.ISO-8859-1 are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C) Writing in vim gives all sorts of silly output. What to do? Something to emerge? Some kernel config problem? Why didn't /etc/env.d/02locale exist? I compiled glibc without the userlocales USE variable, so all locales should exist... /etc/env.d/02locale doesn't exist by default. I can see from the perl warning that 02local didn't work for you because it says en_US.ISO-8859-1 instead of en_US.UTF-8. You need to run env-update source /etc/profile. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
