UTF-8 problem since last glibc update

Roguelazer

I used to have UTF-8 working very well. Then I went ~x86. I've been trying to get UTF-8 back to 100% since, but it hasn't worked, so now I come to you. I have done the

Roguelazer · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:16 am Post subject:

Help meeeeeeeeeeeee... Please?
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Roguelazer · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 11:48 am Post subject:

I don't want to be annoying, but I -will- keep bumping this.
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Roguelazer · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 6:29 pm Post subject:

I'm not gonna give up.
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kallamej · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject:

The locales are in /usr/share/i18n/locales on my system.
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Roguelazer · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 3:27 am Post subject:

Behold, a brave soul replies.

Yeah, I localedef'd into there with no visible results. But it was a good try! Thanks!
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sa · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 450

the arguments you used above for localedef look a little weird to me (not sure if you are supposed to put the full path): try
"localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8"

what does "locale -a | grep en_US" tell you?

Roguelazer · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 1:51 pm Post subject:

kallamej · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 5:46 pm Post subject:

Hmm, does this page help anything. This seems to work for me:

Roguelazer · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:35 am Post subject:

Hmm... I changed the values of "LC_CTYPE" etc to en_US.utf8 and the error went away. Now the only error I get is

kallamej · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 12:27 pm Post subject:

Well, according to the page I linked, that's because X only accepts UTF-8 as a valid name for UTF-8, whilst glibc is not so picky.
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Roguelazer · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:18 pm Post subject:

So why does en_US.utf8 work with everything except Xlib and en_US.UTF-8 work with nothing?

[edit]Hmmm... Changed the values back to UTF-8. No more error messages from anything. Maybe my "emerge perl xfree glibc" fixed something. Maybe it was somethign else. Oh well.[/edit]

SOLVED!
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kallamej · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:43 pm Post subject:

Yeah, it's a good question why the UTF-8 setting didn't work right from the start. I had a similar problem once where my system thought that there was a trailing space in my locale setting, 'sv_SE '. Some nonsense editing of my 02locale solved it.
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DumbAss · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 9:14 am Post subject:

I got the same problem at the moment. I've been months without the error and then I removed the .UTF-8 from my 02locale because I wanted to emerge redhat-artwork. Then I changed the settings back and I got this error messages.
I'm gonna search for the spaces and maybe recompile perl. I'll let you know what the problem was.