Ken Moffat wrote: > Oh I do love doing it a fully manual build, and having to read the text > instead of just skimming it to look for changes ;) The text for setting > /etc/profile in chapter 7 includes an appropriate example for me, > "en_GB.iso8859-1" but locale -a shows this as "en_GB.iso88591" > > Is this a bug, or is the '-' permitted ? `man setlocale' implies the > character set should be specified as ISO-8859-1 and refers me to > locale(1) which doesn't exist on the new system (`man locale' gives me a > posix man page from the 1p section which is somewhat less than > informative).
All three forms are equivalent for glibc. There is, however, some picky software (e.g. xlib) that would insist on "ISO-8859-1" or "iso88591". So it's better to change the book to say "ISO-8859-1". Also some people say it's better to remove LC_ALL (i.e. set only LANG) and I tend to agree with them now. Please do that before LFS 6.1 comes out. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
