On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > The handbook documents setting a system-wide default locale. You > generally do this by setting the LANG variable in > /etc/conf.d/02locale. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=8#doc_chap3_sect3
Mike, Thank you for your help. I attempted to follow these instructions and ran into three problems. Can you please confirm the fixes I employed to deal with each of these issues: 1. The handbook suggests I should modify the file /etc/env.d/02locale, but that file does not exist on my system. RESOLUTION: create the file 2. The handbook suggests I should add this line to /etc/env.d/02locale: 'LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"', but I do not speak the language "DE". RESOLUTION: type instead 'LANG="en_US.UTF-8"' to match /etc/locale.gen 3. The handbook suggests that I should add this line to /etc/env.d/02locale: 'LC_COLLATE="C"', but I do not know if they are again talking about the language "DE". RESOLUTION: I assumed LC_COLLATE=C refers to english and added the line without modification. Thank you again for your help, Chris
