Install-Guide should contain setting the locale

skoehler · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 26

Hi,

i've added the line
export LANG=de_DE
to my /etc/profile after some hours of searching and trying. the locale contained in the LANG variable affects all Java-Applications, the language within Gnome, the charset the Gnome-terminal is using etc.

This should really be mentioned in the Guide at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
and perhaps even moved into
/etc/rc.conf
so that
/etc/profile
is extracting the setting there like it is doing already with the EDITOR variable.

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

Read the Gentoo Localisation Guide. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/de/guide-localization.xml

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 10:36 am Post subject:

locale definitions should be set somewhere in /etc/env.d. It's an environment variable.

skoehler · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 26

Well, somebody told me /etc/env.d/02language would be a good place, but it isn't here yet, so am i save to create it?

If /etc/env.d is a good idea, it should be mentioned in
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/de/guide-localization.xml

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 10:53 am Post subject:

You can create it, yes. The localization guide should be updated, yes. Please file a bugreport on it on https://bugs.gentoo.org.

sterni

I recently start, to figure out why my charsets
are broken. I recognized there is a lot of
stuff i don't understand and which seems to be broken.

First I saw that german "iso8859-1" ascii text are
not displayed correctly in xterm and console. Then
I decided to create the
/etc/env.d/02locale
with the following lines.
LANG=de_DE@euro
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8

The effect is in my gnome application are a lot of broken
chars in the menu (I tried to rebuild some of these
apps without effect)
And the "german text" problem is not solved. Then i found
unicode_start, which solves the "german text" problem but the
gnome apps are still broken. And due to the utf in LC_CTYPE
acroread don't start.

What I want is the setting for a english enviroment (LANG=C) and the ability to display in X and console foreign country charssets.

bye!

schlehmil · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2003 7:56 am Post subject:

try this:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=16627&highlight=nautilus+unicode

it works well for me