On 12/4/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 04 December 2006 19:30, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I don't understand locales, or not really. I get that they say
> something about where the machine is running and what character
> set/sets the machine should use, but that's as far as I go with it.
> It's never been much of a problem.
[SNIP]
> Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_*
> environment variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools
> take care of this.
>
> I'm going back looking at the Gentoo Quick Install Guide. It talks
> about locales.build and locales.gen for recent version of glibc.
> Section 2.37 at
[SNIP]
It's properly covered in the Gentoo Localization Guide [1]. You need to
move/convert your locales.build to a locale.gen, run `locale-gen` and make
sure it doesn't generate any errors and set LANG in /etc/env.d/02locale...
If you need help you will have to post the contents of locale.gen and the
output of `locale-gen`.
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml
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Bo Andresen
Hi Bo,
First, thanks in advance. I really appreciate all your help. I
think I'll ask a few questions as I go along, if that's OK. Thanks
again.
Reading the localization and quick install guides I've become a bit
more confused. The localization guide says the LC_* settings are done
in /etc/env.d/02locale but this doesn't exist here, not even after
running locale-gen:
lightning etc # ls /etc/env.d/
00basic 10libx11 50gconf
75emul-linux-x86-compat
02distcc 10xkeyboard-config 50glib2 90games
03opengl 15openmotif-2.2 50gtk2 99fltk-1.1
04multilib 20java 50ncurses
99gentoolkit-env
05binutils 20java-config 50qtdir3 99libstdc++
05compiler 30java-finalclasspath 60gstreamer-0.10 binutils
05gcc 45emul-linux-x86-qtlibs 60gstreamer-0.8 gcc
05portage.envd 45kdepaths-3.5 60ladspa java
08nspr 45qt3 70less
08nss 50emul-linux-x86-gtklibs 75emul-linux-x86-base
lightning etc #
The current contents of locales.build are shown here. Seems fairly
generic but what do I know? ;-)
lightning ~ # cat /etc/locales.build
# This file names the list of locales to be built when glibc is installed.
# The format is <locale>/<charmap>, where <locale> is a locale from the
# /usr/share/i18n/locales directory, and <charmap> is name of one of the files
# in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. All blank lines and lines starting with # are
# ignored. Here is an example:
# en_US/ISO-8859-1
en_US/ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8
lightning ~ #
I ran locale-gen. No error messages:
lightning ~ # locale-gen
* You should upgrade your /etc/locales.build to /etc/locale.gen
* and then remove /etc/locales.build when you're done.
* Automatically importing locales from /etc/locales.build ...
* You really should do this yourself ...
* Generating 2 locales (this might take a while) with 1 jobs
* (1/2) Generating en_US.ISO-8859-1 ... [ ok ]
* (2/2) Generating en_US.UTF-8 ... [ ok ]
* Generation complete
lightning ~ #
Unfortunately there is no locale.gen file generated:
lightning etc # ls -la /etc/locale.gen
ls: cannot access /etc/locale.gen: No such file or directory
lightning etc #
lightning etc # updatedb
lightning etc # slocate locale.gen
/usr/share/man/man5/locale.gen.5.gz
lightning etc #
locale-gen seems to read locales.build, I think:
lightning etc # locale-gen -l
en_US.ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8
lightning etc #
So far it seems like this isn't working for me. I'll wait for some
feedback and keep reading.
Thanks,
Mark
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