Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: >> A 'locale' is a collection of character set, language, date/time >> format, currency format, etc > > Josh, > > Thank you. I now understand what a "locale" is. It is surprising to

Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote: > A 'locale' is a collection of character set, language, date/time > format, currency format, etc Josh, Thank you. I now understand what a "locale" is. It is surprising to me that the string "en_US.UTF8" tells the OS about currency, date/ti

Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Dale wrote: > LANG="en_US.UTF8" > LC_ALL="en_US.UTF8" Dale, Thank you, I used the same. > P. S. Welcome to Gentoo and the world of constantly learning. Just > when you learn something, something changes and you get to learn it all > over again. :/ :) Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-09 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > Section 8c of the handbook tells me: > > === > > You now have the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings in > the /etc/env.d/02locale file: > > === > > Code Listing 3.8: Setting the default system locale in /etc/env.d

Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-09 Thread Dale
Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > Section 8c of the handbook tells me: > > === > > You now have the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings in > the /etc/env.d/02locale file: > > === > > Code Listing 3.8: Setting the default system locale in /etc/env.d/02locale > LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" >

[gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings

2012-09-09 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Section 8c of the handbook tells me: === You now have the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings in the /etc/env.d/02locale file: === Code Listing 3.8: Setting the default system locale in /etc/env.d/02locale LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="C" === Q1: Do I have the possibil