Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:50:01 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: >David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> I ditched all those /etc/env.d settings for locale, and put mine >> in /etc/profile.d/local.sh as follows: >> ><&

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 16:40:53 Dale wrote: > David W Noon wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] > > Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: > > > > [snip] > > > >> Hmm... I've added all

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Dale
David W Noon wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: [snip] Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="e

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales: [snip] >Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: > >LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" >LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" >LC_NUMERIC="en_GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:43:54 William Kenworthy wrote: > Could it be your desktop overiding the basics? - gnome or kde perhaps? > Also check the login manager (I use GDM and there is a language setting > for the login there.) Aha! You got it! From a console both ~/.bashrc and /etc/env.d/02l

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Christopher Swift
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:38 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Mick writes: > > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > Your aterm is configured as a login she

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick wrote: > Hmm... I've added all this in my /etc/env.d/02locale: > > LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="C" > LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_ADD

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:38 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Mick writes: > > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > Your aterm is configured as a login she

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 13:20:38 William Kenworthy wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Mick writes: > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads > > You might want to read this an

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 13:59 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads > You might want to read this and set up your locales properly. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Your aterm is configured as a login shell, and as such reads At least I thought so, what else could be the cause. But I just emerged aterm, and the default is also to be not a login shell. There is a -ls option for this,

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 12:10:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > > Oops! This is more complicated that I thought ... > > > > If, always as a plain user, I use aterm then /etc/env.d/02locale is > > read and LANG is en_GB.UTF-8. However, if I use xterm it is still > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote: > > I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain > > user locale reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale? > > > > I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user > > still shows all settings as "en_U

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 17:14:13 Christopher Swift wrote: > > Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: > > > I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: > > > > > > I would like to use en_GB but I do not undes

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 17:14:13 Christopher Swift wrote: > Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: > > I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: > > > > I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why running 'locale' > > as a plain user shows: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Christopher Swift wrote: > Is it at all possible to set a locale, i.e. cy_GB to be the primary LANG > parameter but if there is no .po for cy_GB or the .po is incomplete to > use en_GB as a backup instead of the default en_US? gettext allows to specify fallback languages: http://www.gnu.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-22 Thread Christopher Swift
Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick: > I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler: > > I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why running 'locale' > as a plain user shows: > > $ locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-22 Thread Mick
On 22 June 2010 02:14, Christopher Swift wrote: > I've setup my Gentoo box to use en_GB as the default locale > in /etc/env.d/02locale with tips from the Gentoo Localisation Guide[0]. > Is it at all possible to set a locale, i.e. cy_GB to be the primary LANG > parameter but if there is no .po for

[gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-21 Thread Christopher Swift
I've setup my Gentoo box to use en_GB as the default locale in /etc/env.d/02locale with tips from the Gentoo Localisation Guide[0]. Is it at all possible to set a locale, i.e. cy_GB to be the primary LANG parameter but if there is no .po for cy_GB or the .po is incomplete to use en_GB as a backup i