Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: LANG=en_US.UTF8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8 Dale, Thank you, I used the same. P. S. Welcome to Gentoo and the world of constantly learning. Just when you learn something, something changes and you get to learn it all over again. :/

Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: A 'locale' is a collection of character set, language, date/time format, currency format, etc Josh, Thank you. I now understand what a locale is. It is surprising to me that the string en_US.UTF8 tells the OS about

Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: A 'locale' is a collection of character set, language, date/time format, currency format, etc Josh, Thank you. I now understand what a

[gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-09 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Section 8c of the handbook tells me: === You now have the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings in the /etc/env.d/02locale file: === Code Listing 3.8: Setting the default system locale in /etc/env.d/02locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C === Q1: Do I have the possibility

Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-09 Thread Dale
Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, Section 8c of the handbook tells me: === You now have the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings in the /etc/env.d/02locale file: === Code Listing 3.8: Setting the default system locale in /etc/env.d/02locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C

Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-09 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Section 8c of the handbook tells me: === You now have the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings in the /etc/env.d/02locale file: === Code Listing 3.8: Setting the default system locale