if theres no file 02local you have to create it and set your locales there. after donig this run env-update
regards Dominik On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Daniel Pielmeier < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: >> >> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>> This looks fine. If when you run $ locale you get a list with >>>> LANG=en_US >>>> but >>>> further down LC_ALL= (blank), then set export LC_ALL=xxx in your >>>> .bashrc >>>> to >>>> whatever you want your locale set to. >>>> >>>> >>> Halfway there. I did that, and now "locale" looks like >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ locale >>> LANG=en_US >>> LC_CTYPE="en_US" >>> LC_NUMERIC="en_US" >>> LC_TIME="en_US" >>> LC_COLLATE="en_US" >>> LC_MONETARY="en_US" >>> LC_MESSAGES="en_US" >>> LC_PAPER="en_US" >>> LC_NAME="en_US" >>> LC_ADDRESS="en_US" >>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" >>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" >>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" >>> LC_ALL=en_US >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ >>> >>> However, when I start k3b from the KDE menus, it still complains. >>> >>> On the other hand, if I start k3b from the shell that gives the "locale" >>> results above, >>> it starts clean. So the issue seems to be that I need to inform KDE >>> about >>> the >>> locale. >>> >>> I did a fresh boot, and that did not help, so I wonder if .mybashrc is >>> the >>> correct >>> place to do this. >>> >>> >> try /etc/env.d/02locale >> >> LANG="en_US" >> LC_ALL="en_US" >> >> For details take a look at the localisation guide. >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml >> -- >> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list >> >> > The file /etc/env.d/02locale does not exist on my system. I can create it, > of course, > but I suspect I may be missing something. Is there a package I should > emerge? > > ++ kevin > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD >
