Am Sonntag 28 August 2011, 10:51:36 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > following this guide: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml > > Doing a > > locale -a | grep de_DE | grep utf > > I got: > > de_DE.utf8 > > . > > Then I created the file > > /etc/init.d/02locale > > with the contents: > > LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 > > . As root I did a > > rc-update > > , which runs without any error/warning message. > > I sourced > > /etc/profile > > and did a > > locale > > . The output was -- despite of what the guide exspected -- > > > LANG= > LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" > LC_TIME="POSIX" > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > LC_MONETARY="POSIX" > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" > LC_PAPER="POSIX" > LC_NAME="POSIX" > LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" > LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" > LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" > LC_ALL= > > Since there is no "what to do if something else happens"-paragraph in > the guide, I want to ask here, what I am doing wrong...??? > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > > Best regards, > mcc
why don't you just set: LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 and LANG=de_DE.utf8 and maybe even LANGUAGE -- #163933
