On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:42:53PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > Thanks for joining in. I have mucho craziness in these directories! > /usr/share/locale has way too much stuff, but it doesn't have what I > want. It's missing en_US.utf8 and en_US.ISO8859-1. Also, all of what I > think are the font files are in a directory called charmaps, not > charsets, like yours: (This is an AMD64 machine so maybe that's part > of the difference?) > > lightning ~ # ls /usr/share/i18n > SUPPORTED charmaps locales > lightning ~ # > > Before I do something stupid, can I erase all this /usr/share stuff > by hand, then re-emerge glibc, rerun locale-gen to get the right > stuff. I suspect that since I had weird settings in make.conf, now > fixed with Dale's help, that now if I re-emerge glibc maybe I'll get > the right stuff? >
My apologies for jumping in kind of late in this thread, and I am not sure if you have answered this question already, but what do you have as the content of /etc/locale.gen ? I ask because this is useful prior to you issuing emerge glibc again. Best, W -- "You should be excited by this, because it is an equation you can solve." ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 730 days, 23:59
