[gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/10/2009 08:49 PM, ABCD wrote: ... Because I'm seeing some strange things in this thread, let me elucidate as to what the various LANG/LC_* variables do: LANG sets the default for LC_*, if unset, defaults to C LC_CTYPE [charset] LC_NUMERIC [number format] LC_TIME [time format]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-11 Thread Stroller
On 11 Jul 2009, at 19:35, walt wrote: On 07/10/2009 08:49 PM, ABCD wrote: ... Because I'm seeing some strange things in this thread, let me elucidate as to what the various LANG/LC_* variables do: LANG sets the default for LC_*, if unset, defaults to C LC_CTYPE [charset] LC_NUMERIC

[gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/11/2009 01:13 PM, Stroller wrote: On 07/10/2009 08:49 PM, ABCD wrote: ... Because I'm seeing some strange things in this thread, let me elucidate as to what the various LANG/LC_* variables do: LANG sets the default for LC_*, if unset, defaults to C I'm reading this as to *only* set

[gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-10 Thread walt
On 07/10/2009 02:48 PM, Stroller wrote: ... Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_* environment variables are set... Googling LC_* environment variables turns up this doc: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3 I assume this document is correct

[gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-10 Thread walt
On 07/10/2009 04:02 PM, Peter Ruskin wrote: ... I set LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to POSIX some time ago to make konqueror sort the way I expect. We posted our responses at the same time, apparently. Where did you learn that POSIX is an appropriate value for those variables? I need to read

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-10 Thread Stroller
On 11 Jul 2009, at 00:05, walt wrote: On 07/10/2009 02:48 PM, Stroller wrote: ... Googling LC_* environment variables turns up this doc: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3 ... Unless you have some very arcane lanuage needs you can just set the value of LC_ALL

[gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.

2009-07-10 Thread ABCD
Stroller wrote: Hi there, I want to try burning a DVD using k3b and when it starts up it complains: System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this