From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 18:45:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FFC16A468 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS1=0c45849e2b4bd5a2ab9bd66dc6033596ae2ca708=es.net==0c45849e2b4bd5a2ab9bd66dc6033596ae2ca708=357=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5C813C4D5 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS1=0c45849e2b4bd5a2ab9bd66dc6033596ae2ca708=es.net==0c45849e2b4bd5a2ab9bd66dc6033596ae2ca708=357=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal4.es.net [198.124.252.66]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP (SSL) id KYI62851 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:29:51 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal4.es.net (Postal Node 4) with ESMTP (SSL) id KYI94149; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:29:49 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id E31B845042; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 11:29:48 -0700 (PDT) To: Neil Short In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:54:32 PDT." <958545.72886.qm@web56513.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1181068188_74263P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:29:48 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20070605182948.E31B845042@ptavv.es.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xorg 7.2 & environment variables set in login.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:45:05 -0000 --==_Exmh_1181068188_74263P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:54:32 -0700 (PDT) > From: Neil Short > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > > --- Stefan Esser wrote: > > > On 2007-06-03 07:38 -0700, Neil Short > > wrote: > > > How do you export those variables successfully in > > > ~/.xsession? It still doesn't help with me. > > > > > > check this out: > > > > > > $ locale > > > LANG=en_US > > > > This is not a valid locale! You have a choice > > between: > > > > en_US.ISO8859-1 > > en_US.ISO8859-15 > > en_US.US-ASCII > > en_US.UTF-8 > > > > [...] > > > $ echo $LC_ALL > > > en_US > > > $ perl > > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale > > settings: > > > LC_ALL = (unset), > > > LANG = "en_US" > > > are supported and installed on your system. > > > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale > > ("C"). > > > > Yes, and perl tells you, that en_US just isn't > > specific enough > > for its needs ... > > > > It's up to you whether you prefer en_US.US-ASCII, > > en_US.ISO8859-1, > > or en_US.UTF-8 (e.g. depending on whether you at > > least occasionally > > work with foreign language texts). > > > > Regards, STefan > > > > That did the trick. I appreciate it. > Just for the documentation of it all -- I messed up by > putting my language setting under the "default:" > catagory in /etc/login.conf. > I needed to ALSO create a separate "me:" catagory like > so: > me:\ > :tc=default: > > I suppose the real moral to the story is: be very > careful what you overwrite during mergemaster. It's my > guess that I overwrote /etc/login.conf at some point > when my eyes were glassed over. And 'mergemaster -U' is probably your best friend for letting you be very, very careful without spending all day doing the merge. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1181068188_74263P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFGZauckn3rs5h7N1ERAt/nAJ0arVUv8UcSjKoZXkrReRlwH5yaLACeNkN1 YaX5Z9BS+feSs1Hq8XG8ycY= =Vh23 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1181068188_74263P--