On Monday, 4 May 2020 15:08:12 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Here are mine for comparison:
# grep -E '^(LANG|LC_|L10)' /etc/portage/make.conf L10N="en-GB en" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="en_GB.UTF-8" # env | grep -E '^(LANG|LC_|L10)' LANG=en_GB.utf8 # locale -a C C.utf8 en_GB en_GB.iso88591 en_GB.iso885915 en_GB.utf8 POSIX # localedef --list-archive C.utf8 en_GB en_GB.iso88591 en_GB.iso885915 en_GB.utf8 > # grep -E '^(LANG|LC_|L10)' /etc/portage/make.conf > L10N="en-GB" > LANG="en_GB" > LC_MESSAGES="C" > # env | grep -E '^(LANG|LC_|L10)' > LANG=en_GB.utf8 > LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US:en > LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_COLLATE=C > LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8 > LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 > # locale -a > C > C.utf8 > POSIX > en_GB.utf8 > # localedef --list-archive > C.utf8 > en_GB.utf8 What do you have in your kernel config, under File Systems / Native Language Support? I only have a few selected: the ones I might use. (This may be a red herring.) -- Regards, Peter.
