On Sunday, 13 June 2021 18:10:46 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> On Sunday, 2021-06-13 16:16:37 +0100, you wrote:
> > ...
> > $ grep -i en_gb /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
> > en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
> > en_GB ISO-8859-1
> 
> Same here.

It would/should be the same with mine.  Have you made sure:

en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8

is in your /etc/locale.gen and have you run locale-gen thereafter?

> > ...
> > $ eselect locale list
> > 
> > Available targets for the LANG variable:
> >   [1]   C
> >   [2]   C.utf8
> >   [3]   POSIX
> > 
> > [snip ... ]
> > 
> >   [7]   en_GB
> >   [8]   en_GB.iso88591
> >   [9]   en_GB.utf8
> >   [10]  en_US
> >   [11]  en_US.iso88591
> >   [12]  en_US.utf8
> >   [13]  en_GB.UTF-8 *
> >   [ ]   (free form)
> 
> Now it's becoming really mysterious, right from the local horse's mouth:
> 
>    $ eselect locale list
>    Available targets for the LANG variable:
>      [1]   C
>      [2]   C.utf8
>      [3]   POSIX
>      [4]   en_GB.utf8 *
>      [ ]   (free form)
> 
> So allegedly my only  "available target"  for English  is the not (or no
> longer) working "en_GB.utf8".   Being slightly flabbergasted  would be a
> huge understatement ... :-/
> 
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer

Yes, this looks odd, but I have not worked out how locale is sourced in 
detail.  Have you added:

 LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"

in your /etc/env.d/02locale for a system wide setting?

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