On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 16:28, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:14:01PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 16:02, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > When I test these settings on my installed system, it appears > > > that Perl is unhappy with the `@utf-8' part of LC_CTYPE. Is > > > this a valid locale, or are the boot-floppies blowing smoke? > > > > It is a valid locale, but only while you are running in the installation > > root filesystem. After reboot, or if you chroot somewhere else, it will > > stop being valid. I suspect that debootstrap may be running afoul of > > the latter by chrooting into /target in order to configure these > > packages. > > What is the advantage over `C'? Why is it only valid on the > installation root filesystem?
"C" uses the ASCII character set, not UTF-8. By definition, a locale is only valid if it is present in /usr/lib/locale. The files for C@utf-8 are created by rootdisk.sh and only exist in that one filesystem. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
