PBM: glibc-2.11 - all locale names are unknown!

[VinzC]

Hi all.

I've just upgraded to glibc-2.11.2 and now none of my locales seems known:

[Jaglover]

OK, nobody is responding ... what happens when you run locale-gen?

[VinzC]

I've run locale-gen, of course, run env-update && source /etc/profile, as usual. The issue with unknown locales isn't fixed. That is why I posted here. Strangely enough, that is 2.11 specific as my other Gentoo machine (which lists «fran�ais» instead of «français», like Debian) has glibc 2.10 and doesn't exhibit that issue.

I have recompiled glibc twice now. I don't get the error message (setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8 ) ) during compile time anymore. My locales seem to work (i.e. nano window appears in french if I set LC_ALL to fr_BE.UTF- but the locale command doesn't work as expected with a valid locale argument.

BTW I've seen at least two distinct ways to setup /etc/locale.gen. Should we write, for instance "fr_BE.utf8 UTF-8" or "fr_BE.UTF-8 UTF-8"? How can we figure out which one? The only thing I'm certain is Debian uses the latter.
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[USTruck]

Hello,

I don't have any problem with my locale but different settings

Make.conf : LINGUAS="fr"

/etc/env.d/02locale : LANG="fr_BE.utf8"


/etc/locale.gen
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_BE ISO-8859-1
fr_BE@euro ISO-8859-15
fr_BE.UTF-8 UTF-8

Kernel config :

CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf8"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1250 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1251 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_13 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y
# CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U is not set
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y

Can you verify : eselect python list (default 2.6 NOT 3.1)
This solve your problem ?

[VinzC]

@USTruck

Reading your post I no longer understand anything at all to localization in UNIX . There's a mix between keywords spelling "utf8" and "UTF-8" but when the Hell do I know where/when/why to use which of these? Shouldn't you use either "utf8" or "UTF-8" all over the place, i.e. in /etc/locale.gen AND /etc/env.d/02locale ?

EDIT: To answer your question

[USTruck]

Hello

About utf8 and UTF-8 : between settings of my station (learning), I find that to set (locale.gen) a usage are "UTF-8" and to use it (02locale) a correct set are "utf8" (why ????)

But to see what locale are used type : locale
like :

[VinzC]

Ah, I feel less lonely at once .

Do you have the same error with "C", "POSIX" ?
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[USTruck]

Yes with your exemple NO with my

locale -a | grep POSIX
locale -a | grep C

[USTruck]

ATTENTION : I find some information about UTF settings (I research source to provide)

DO NOT SET LC_ALL, only LANG under 02locale

[VinzC]