On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 12:42:03 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Peter, sorry for the late reply :-( > > On Monday, 2020-05-04 16:30:49 +0100, you wrote: > > ... > > 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.) > > Only these: > > (utf8) Default NLS Option > <*> Codepage 437 (United States, Canada) > <*> ASCII (United States) > <*> NLS ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages) > <*> NLS UTF-8 > > But just as an example: > > # find / -xdev -type d -name ru > /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial/locale/ru > /usr/lib64/libreoffice/help/media/icon-themes/cmd/ru > /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/mercurial/locale/ru > /usr/share/help/ru > /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/ru > /usr/share/vim/vim82/lang/ru > /usr/share/man/ru > /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.33.1/locale/ru > /usr/share/locale/ru > /usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/locale/ru > /var/cache/man/ru > # > > And searching for other language codes irrelevant to me gives similar > results. I've already thought about adding "-nls" to the global USE > flags, but I'm fearing to lose "en-GB" that way.
I see what you mean. I'm just remerging @world with -nls, but it causes 95 rebuilds, including a lot of kde-frameworks packages, so I've copied my packages directory in case your fear is borne out. I'll let you know. -- Regards, Peter.
