Hi, On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:53:11 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...] > /etc/locales.build > > which says > > # 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 > [...] > Glibc built fine (afaict), but my problem is that I now don't know what > to export with a LANG variable. > > For example, if I want [EMAIL PROTECTED]/UTF-8, how do I export that as > opposed > to [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ISO-8859-15 (or worse, ISO-8859-1)? Note the comment you've cited: The format is "locale/charmap". This generates the locale data for a certain "language" (it's a little bit more than just language, though) for the specified charmap. In LANG/LC_* you only set the locale. The charmap is (semi-) automatically chosen, which makes sense, since it's terminal dependant which charset is used. > Was I supposed to give the locales individual names as the Localization > Guide implies? locales.build doesn't indicate that you can do that (and > in fact, I thought perhaps the reason why language exports were mildly > borked might be because I had done so). [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ISO-8859-1 didn't make much sense to me (and maybe causes some failures when building?), but other from that it seemed OK. > Should I just get rid of the 'extra' locales (ISO-8859-15 and > ISO-8859-1)? Since I guess I'm going to try to stick to UTF-8, maybe I > don't really need them (I was mostly covering my butt, concerned that my > current and future network connections might not support UTF-8, since > they're mostly to Windows machines). All the terminals you're using support UTF-8? > I guess I've made a mistake, but I'm not quite sure what to do about it. > Since fixing it will most almost certainly require a recompile of glibc, > and since compiling glibc takes nine-tenths of forever, I'd like to get > it on with it as soon as possible (sigh). So any hints would be appreciated. How does the "borkism" of your locales manifest? -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
