ebuilds should not depend on the LC_CTYPE of the shell envirnment. The following will have warnings LANG=en_US.UTF-8 emerge jdictionary LANG=C emerge jdictionary The following is fine LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 emerge jdictionary To reproduce, make sure en_US.ISO-8859-1 and en_US.UTF-8 are available on your system Reproducible: Always
Fixed by setting the encoding explicitly. Thanks for the report. *jdictionary-1.8-r3 (15 Oct 2012) 15 Oct 2012; Ralph Sennhauser <sera@gentoo.org> +jdictionary-1.8-r3.ebuild: Set encoding. #432634 EAPI bump and cleanup.