>> Sometime in the past week or two, doing and emerge sync/update >> appears to have changed the default charset from iso-8859 to >> UTF8. There are still too many apps I use everyday that don't >> support UTF8, so this was a problem. >> >> Creating /etc/env.d/02locale and running env-update fixed the >> problem, but I'm curious how/when the default changed. > > IIRC the default locale is either C or POSIX unless you > specifically alter it. > > grep the contents of /etc/env.d/ for LANG or LC_ALL and use > equery to see which ebuilds own any files that appear.
Neither was present in env.d nor the environment until I created /etc/env.d/02locale. Running 'locale' showed both of them unset, and everything else it showed was POSIX. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! "DARK SHADOWS" at is on!! Hey, I think visi.com the VAMPIRE forgot his UMBRELLA!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list