Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:55:59 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: locale questions Message-ID: <200602140955.k1E9tx7h049029@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20060214033217.GA68502@tigerfish2.my.domain>
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Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net> wrote:
> Okay, OpenOffice 2.0 is now spewing out the error message:
>
> I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"
>
> Hmmm. So, from what I understand from the documentation I have
> looked at, this is because I do not have an entry in the /etc/
> login.conf file covering this entry. Yes/no?
Locales are searched for in /usr/share/locales, and there
is no locale "en_US". The next closest locale would be
"en_US.US-ASCII". You could make a Symlink to en_US, but
that's an ugly hack, of course. :-)
Better set your locale environment to one of the existing
locales. You can do that globally via /etc/login.conf,
or just for yourself in your shell's login profikle/script.
> Another thing - as I look in /etc/login.conf, I DO have a
> Russian entry. Why?
Those are just examples.
> So, if I do need to create an entry in the login.con file,
> what is the charset that I define?
Depends on what charset you want. :-)
On my local machine here, I changed the "default" entr (at
the very beginning) to look like this:
default:\
:passwd_format=md5:\
:copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
:welcome=/etc/motd:\
:setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-1:\
...etc...
i.e. I set the default to German locale with ISO8859-1
charset (that's because all users on that machine are
German anyway). Also, I set only LC_CTYPE to get the
character set support, but none of the other locale
variables, to avoid nasty surprises.
If you just want an US-ASCII character set, use the
"en_US.US-ASCII" locale instead. See /usr/share/locale
for all locales that are supported.
Best regards
Oliver
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