On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > When I crank up K3b, it complains about my setup, with the message > > > > "System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 > > Your system's locale charset (i.e. the charset used to encode > > filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It is highly unlikely that this has > > been done intentionally. > > Most likely the locale is not set at all. An invalid setting will > > result in problems when creating data projects. > > Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_* > > environment variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools take > > care of this." > > > > It is correct that this is not intentional (it does seem antique). I > have > > configured .mybashrc to set my LANG to "en_US", but nothing beyond that. > > What "distribution setup tools" is it referring to, so that I can correct > > this on gentoo? > > What have you set up in your /etc/locale.gen ?
I won't take credit for setting this up, because I don't think I did. On the other hand, I've had occasion to internationalize a web page to dutch and polish, which appear in the list. So I dunno where it came from. But here's what's there: # /etc/locale.gen: list all of the locales you want to have on your system # # The format of each line: # <locale> <charmap> # # Where <locale> is a locale located in /usr/share/i18n/locales/ and # where <charmap> is a charmap located in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/. # # All blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored. # # For the default list of supported combinations, see the file: # /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED # # Whenever glibc is emerged, the locales listed here will be automatically # rebuilt for you. After updating this file, you can simply run `locale-gen` # yourself instead of re-emerging glibc. en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 #ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP #ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 #ja_JP EUC-JP #en_HK ISO-8859-1 #en_PH ISO-8859-1 #de_DE ISO-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 es_MX ISO-8859-1 #fa_IR UTF-8 fr_FR ISO-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 #it_IT ISO-8859-1 pl_PL ISO-8859-15 -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
