On Friday 20 April 2018 08:33:02 Alan Corey wrote: > Well yes, all of that's true, but would raspberrypi.org mind if Debian > borrowed a copy of their scripts? I'm not a lawyer but I doubt it. > Meanwhile the Pi has a userbase of millions. OpenBSD didn't even have > locale at all last I knew, it's not that essential. > > raspi-config isn't 3b specific, it works on my Zero. Speed usually > comes at the expense of power consumption,
Power consumption, as long as cooling is adequate, is not a consideratio when this thing has an 8/4 line cord leading to a dryer socket and 2 hp worth of motors it controls. > I'm looking at running > these on 18650 lithium batteries and making a tablet. They're mostly > fast enough, Firefox isn't very efficient. That and Gimp are my 2 > worst hogs. If you want to run gimp on a pi, that 1GB of ram will kill its performance. > But I've run only Pis for 6 months or so. I have one > amd64 laptop running because it's got an oversize battery that keeps > it up through 3-4 hours of power outage, but it's just logging > temperatures. Running Debian though. Locale on that looks the same: > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE= > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= As it does on this rock64, but the default shell is not aware of it now. The charset that mc uses is being substituted until mc is a very strange looking beast. > On 4/20/18, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday 20 April 2018 07:36:53 Alan Corey wrote: > >> So, you can't just bring up raspi-config? It's just a script > >> anyway. The locale section: > > > > raspi.config is pi-3b specific. For starters the pi is armhf, the > > rock64 is arm64, a whole new rig 50x faster than any pi. It would > > take around 3 days to build the pi's kernel on the pi. It can be > > done in something less than an hour on the rock64. > > > >> do_change_locale() { > >> if [ "$INTERACTIVE" = True ]; then > >> dpkg-reconfigure locales > >> else > >> local LOCALE="$1" > >> if ! LOCALE_LINE="$(grep "^$LOCALE " > >> /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED)"; then return 1 > >> fi > >> local ENCODING="$(echo $LOCALE_LINE | cut -f2 -d " ")" > >> echo "$LOCALE $ENCODING" > /etc/locale.gen > >> sed -i "s/^\s*LANG=\S*/LANG=$LOCALE/" /etc/default/locale > >> dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive locales > >> fi > >> } > >> > >> locale is a command and a man page on its own but I think it just > >> reads. On this pi at the moment it says > >> > >> LANG=en_US > >> LANGUAGE= > >> 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= You've got a couple more lines than I do, but its all the same like yours. > >> dpkg-reconfigure locales is the way to fix it under Debian > >> probably, files live in /usr/share/i18n/locales > >> > >> On 4/20/18, Punit Agrawal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 3:29 AM, Gene Heskett > >> > <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > >> >> I just did an update on it, running stretch, 70 files updated, > >> >> and now the locale is trashed. > >> >> > >> >> Running xfce for an x11 gui, and the desktop clock/calendar, > >> >> while using an EN_US-UTF8 font, is not in english, making orage > >> >> a bit useless. > >> >> > >> >> Ideas how to fix it when there apparently is not an > >> >> update.locale file to be found. > >> > > >> > For my locale related trouble, I normally run "sudo > >> > dpkg-reconfigure locales". > >> > > >> > That's the extent of locale related knowledge. :) > > Mine too, thanks Alan. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
