The current handbook says nothing about performing an "eselect locale set" in order to set the system locale. This step should be included right after the one for performing "locale-gen."
that only sets LANG, which shouldn't be needed at that point. we have a whole separate utf-8 guide for managing all the various things one might need to do with system locales & languages.
(In reply to comment #1) > that only sets LANG, which shouldn't be needed at that point. we have a whole > separate utf-8 guide for managing all the various things one might need to do > with system locales & languages. oh yes, and the localization guide for more good times: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml