Peter, sorry for the late reply :-( On Monday, 2020-05-04 16:30:49 +0100, you wrote:
> ... > What do you have in your kernel config, under File Systems / Native Language > Support? I only have a few selected: the ones I might use. (This may be a red > herring.) Only these: (utf8) Default NLS Option <*> Codepage 437 (United States, Canada) <*> ASCII (United States) <*> NLS ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages) <*> NLS UTF-8 But just as an example: # find / -xdev -type d -name ru /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial/locale/ru /usr/lib64/libreoffice/help/media/icon-themes/cmd/ru /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/mercurial/locale/ru /usr/share/help/ru /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/ru /usr/share/vim/vim82/lang/ru /usr/share/man/ru /usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.33.1/locale/ru /usr/share/locale/ru /usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/locale/ru /var/cache/man/ru # And searching for other language codes irrelevant to me gives similar results. I've already thought about adding "-nls" to the global USE flags, but I'm fearing to lose "en-GB" that way. Any further thoughts anybody? Sincerely, Rainer
