Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 17:14:13 Christopher Swift wrote: Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why running 'locale' as a plain user shows: $

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2010 17:14:13 Christopher Swift wrote: Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote: I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain user locale reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale? I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user still shows all settings as en_US.UTF-8 ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: Oops! This is more complicated that I thought ... If, always as a plain user, I use aterm then /etc/env.d/02locale is read and LANG is en_GB.UTF-8. However, if I use xterm it is still LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Your aterm

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads You might want to read this and set up your locales properly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads You might want to read this and set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:38 +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Christopher Swift
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:38 +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:43:54 William Kenworthy wrote: Could it be your desktop overiding the basics? - gnome or kde perhaps? Also check the login manager (I use GDM and there is a language setting for the login there.) Aha! You got it! From a console both ~/.bashrc and

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: [snip] Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Dale
David W Noon wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: [snip] Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 16:40:53 Dale wrote: David W Noon wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: [snip] Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:50:01 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: David W Noon wrote: [snip] I ditched all those /etc/env.d settings for locale, and put mine in /etc/profile.d/local.sh as follows: SNIP Something I run

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com wrote: Is it at all possible to set a locale, i.e. cy_GB to be the primary LANG parameter but if there is no .po for cy_GB or the .po is incomplete to use en_GB as a backup instead of the default en_US? gettext allows to specify fallback

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-22 Thread Mick
On 22 June 2010 02:14, Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com wrote: I've setup my Gentoo box to use en_GB as the default locale in /etc/env.d/02locale with tips from the Gentoo Localisation Guide[0]. Is it at all possible to set a locale, i.e. cy_GB to be the primary LANG parameter but

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-22 Thread Christopher Swift
Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why running 'locale' as a plain user shows: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

[gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-21 Thread Christopher Swift
I've setup my Gentoo box to use en_GB as the default locale in /etc/env.d/02locale with tips from the Gentoo Localisation Guide[0]. Is it at all possible to set a locale, i.e. cy_GB to be the primary LANG parameter but if there is no .po for cy_GB or the .po is incomplete to use en_GB as a backup