Problem with Locales

[StyleWarz]

Hi there,

i got a problem with my locales, and though with postgresql.

at first an ouput of `locale`
this seems to work
root@godmode root # locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=

after `export LANG="de_DE@euro` or `export LANG="de_DE"`
root@godmode root # locale
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
LANG=de_DE@euro
LC_CTYPE="de_DE@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE@euro"
LC_TIME="de_DE@euro"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE@euro"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE@euro"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE@euro"
LC_PAPER="de_DE@euro"
LC_NAME="de_DE@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL=


so how can i fix this? i didn't find anything on google, on #gentoo on IRCnet and FreeNode. thanks

[Jayz]

just set LC_ALL will change all locale to a specific one

[Will Scarlet]

Check the output of "locale -a" and look for your setting. If it is not listed, that would be the reason for the error comming up.

After some checking, I found that the locale command belongs to glibc.

My thinking, and I might be wrong on this one (someone correct me please), that if it is not listed with locale -a command, you may of not included the USE flag of nls in your /etc/make.conf. More specifically, with the build of glibc.

You can check what USE flags glibc was built with using the following command:

etcat -u glibc

If you don't have the etcat command, emerge gentoolkit. etcat is a very useful command.