On Thursday 25 January 2007 07:41, Mick wrote: > > (5) I found the installation of locales and keymaps. None of the > > available locales had "UTF-8" in their names, even though some of the > > suggested ones did. Should I presume that the UTF-8 adaptation is > > created by the locale generating software? What I want is a system that > > uses UTF-8 internally and keyboards and consoles that accept input in > > several languages -- English, French, math, Japanese, and mathematics. I > > guesses some entries and went on -- confident that this can be fixed > > after installation. > > You need to edit /etc/locale.gen and add something like e.g. en_GB.UTF-8 > UTF-8 (the file is well commented with instructions) and then run > locale-gen or re-emerge glibc.
Remerging glibc just to get it to run locale-gen seems very silly. (Yes, before locale-gen was created remerging glibc was the easiest way to do this). And yes, this can be easily be done following the utf-8 guide whenever... http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml -- Bo Andresen
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