Bug 46170

Summary:	Add a reference to 'localedef' in the Localisation Guide for manual build of missing glibc locales
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Ylosar Goer <gentoo.bugs.10>
Component:	Localisation Guide	Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	docs-team
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml
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Description Ylosar Goer 2004-03-29 14:32:49 UTC

It may be of interrest to add a reference to localedef for people who have to use a non 'default' locale like en_US.ISO-8859-15, with a sample like : do 'localedef -c -i en_US -f ISO-8859-15 en_US.ISO-8859-15' to generate your favorite locale.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. [fresh install]
2. follow the localisation guide and #export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15
3. #locale

Actual Results:  
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory


Expected Results:  
the guide should talk about manual generation of the missing locale through
localedef

Comment 1 Gabriel Ebner 2004-04-04 10:03:02 UTC

IMO it would be better to include locale-gen from debian.
Then you'd just have to add 'en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15' to the config file and rerun.

Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-11 06:50:27 UTC

I've added the localedef instruction to the localisation guide. It's of course just a matter of opinion what the best way is, I just opted to include at least one so I can fix this bug :)

Committed to CVS. Thanks for reporting.