On Friday 19 June 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > On Donnerstag 18 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > I have lang=de_de.u...@euro set now, before it was unset. Those umlaut > > > > btw > > use either de...@euro or de_DE.UTF8 > > Oh, thanks. > > I got this setting from the gentoo localization guide (the google cache > still shows that version), which now suggests using LANG="de_DE.UTF-8 > UTF-8" - any idea why the second UTF-8 would be necessary? It's described > in the german version only. I have it set to de_DE.UTF8 now.
I think that the localization guide refers to /etc/locale.gen which uses the format: <locale> <charmap> So, de_DE.UTF-8 is the locale (as shown in /usr/share/i18n/locales/) and UTF-8 is the character map (as shown in /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/). -- Regards, Mick
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