Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-31 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 30 May 2011 22:34:46 +0200 Nils Larsson wrote: Eh... Right, so ... The echo example might have been a bit blunt. I've found myself using echo examples as a general you need to add this setting here device, like you learn to do when you start using Gentoo, might have been a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-31 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:19:16AM -0400, David Relson wrote: Why not use echo ... ?? Since the does an append, the original file contents are still available for reference. Since the added line is at the end of the file, the new value will be used instead of the old value. In this

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-31 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 16:44:25 William Hubbs wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:19:16AM -0400, David Relson wrote: Why not use echo ... ?? Since the does an append, the original file contents are still available for reference. Since the added line is at the end of the file, the

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, May 29 2011, Nils Larsson wrote: måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb: What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ? echo LANG=en_US_utf8 /etc/env.d/02locale and env-update should work. Thanks. It just needed source /etc/profile at the end. The variables are now

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 30 May 2011 04:20:01 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale: måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb: What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ? echo LANG=en_US_utf8 /etc/env.d/02locale and env-update should work. Not likely. The correct locale

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:43:19 +0100, David W Noon wrote: Moreover, I never use file redirection from echo when a text editor is a more appropriate tool. What you have suggested above could well replace a valid locale setting with an that invalid one, without any checks at all on the existing

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 30.05.2011 16:43, schrieb David W Noon: On Mon, 30 May 2011 04:20:01 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale: måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb: What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ? echo LANG=en_US_utf8 /etc/env.d/02locale and env-update

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:00:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale: On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:43:19 +0100, David W Noon wrote: Moreover, I never use file redirection from echo when a text editor is a more appropriate tool. What you have suggested above could well

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Sure thing. However, it is much faster to type `echo foo bar` than writing Open your favorite file editor and enter 'foo' into 'bar'. Being concise is often the better approach when you want to show a solution to the problem at hand instead of educating the reader.

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:46:47 +0100, David W Noon wrote: Setting noclobber in /etc/profile.d/*shopts.sh avoids that particular problem, as well was the one of accidentally nuking a file when you meant to add to it with . Setting noclobber is fine for not obliterating the current contents

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread Nils Larsson
Eh... Right, so ... The echo example might have been a bit blunt. I've found myself using echo examples as a general you need to add this setting here device, like you learn to do when you start using Gentoo, might have been a bit presumptuous of me. As for the incorrect locale string,

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, May 30 2011, David W. Noon wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2011 04:20:01 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale: måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb: What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ? echo LANG=en_US_utf8 /etc/env.d/02locale and env-update should

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread daid kahl
On 30 May 2011 20:58, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Mon, May 30 2011, David W. Noon wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2011 04:20:01 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale: måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev  Allan Gottlieb: What must I do to get en_US_utf8

[gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On one of my machines all the LC_ variables are POSIX. I want them to be en_US.utf8 as on my other machines. I have the done the following (from the handbook) 1. cat /etc/local.gen (ignoring comments) en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 2. locale-gen 3. source /etc/profile 4. locale

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-29 Thread Nils Larsson
måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb: What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ? echo LANG=en_US_utf8 /etc/env.d/02locale and env-update should work.