On Friday 06 October 2006 20:51, Liviu Andronic wrote:

> Thanks for answering.

Was a mistake by me that I replied to the wrong mail of yours.. ;)

[SNIP]

> Please note that here locale -a doesn't show en_US.UTF-8, but

> en_US*.utf8 *(case

> change and missing dash).

That's expected. Not an error.

> Furthermore, I wouldn't have written on this matter if I didn't have

> problems with an application.

Yes, but we aren't mind readers. Knowing that you probably had a reason that you decided wasn't worth mentioning really isn't helpful...

> I use emelFM2 as file manager and it uses

> LC_* variables to determine the encoding to be used for file names (if not

> mistaking anything). Now, after having made changes to the locales (emelFM2

> was using C locale before, including for it's configuration file),

> filenames containing peculiar characters (Cyrillic and others) are

> illisible in the filelist. Moreover, although in debugs emelFM2 determines

> correctly that LC_ALL indicates en_US.UTF-8, it falls back (I believe) to

> using C locale instead of the utf-8 one (reads from and saves to config-C

> instead of config-en_US.UTF-8).

As you may have noticed emelfm2 has been removed from the portage tree because it lacks a maintainer. The latest ebuild is on bug #90476 [1]. Unlike the latest ebuild in portage that actually has a unicode use flag. Did you use that one [2]?

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90476

[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=97568

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Bo Andresen

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