On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:51, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> I still working on getting my gentoo partition ready for use (dl is
> slow at 44kbps) and was running emerge in a chroot(2)ed shell.
> 
> Whenever a perl module was tested for dependencies, perl complained
> that it was unable to set the locale to en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> Being an english speaking yank, I natuarlly run with LANG=en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> Is that error from perl indicative of a bug in the perl ebuild?  Or
> does gentoo lack support for en_US.UTF-8?  Or is it simply a case of
> an as yet unfinished emerge --update world?
> 
> I didn't find anything on google or in the faq....
long answer:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=34923&highlight=%2Autf%2A+%2Aglibc%2A

short answer:
do this as root:
"localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8"

:)
gabor
> 
> -JimC
> 
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