On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:34:02PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 09:16:11PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Oded Arbel wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > This surely can't work.In this locale hebrew characters have no
> > > > > > > > representation.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Perhaps you don't have the he_IL locale.What distro do you have?
> >> > > >>
> > > > > > > I have Mandrake 9.1.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Install locales-he as well as kde-i18n-he
> > > > > > now set LC_CTYPE in /etc/sysconfig/i18n to 'IL_he.ISO-8859-8'
> > > > > > should work now
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks! That worked great. Will it have any other effect on my system?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Seems it does. Perl givesme two warnings while Subversion simply refuses
> > > > to run because it cannot recognize the locale. Is there a better
> > > > solution? What process needs to be aware of this particular locale
> > > > setting.
> > >
> > > Are you sure you installed the package 'locales-he' ?
> > >
> >
> > shlomi:~# rpm -q locales-he
> > locales-he-2.3.1.4-6mdk
>
> And is it the same as the version of glibc on the system?
>
shlomi:~# rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.3.1-10mdk
> >
> > > It is he_IL.ISO-8859-8 , as you have correctly noted.
> > >
> > > What is the output of 'locale' ?
> > >
> >
> > shlomi:~# locale
> > LANG=en_US
> > LC_CTYPE=he_IL.ISO-8859-8
> > LC_NUMERIC=en_US
> > LC_TIME=en_US
> > LC_COLLATE=en_US
> > LC_MONETARY=en_US
> > LC_MESSAGES=en_US
> > LC_PAPER=en_US
> > LC_NAME=en_US
> > LC_ADDRESS=en_US
> > LC_TELEPHONE=en_US
> > LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US
> > LC_ALL=
>
> What exactly is the error message of perl?
>
shlomi:~# perl
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_PAPER = "en_US",
LC_ADDRESS = "en_US",
LC_MONETARY = "en_US",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_US",
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_US",
LC_MESSAGES = "en_US",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_US",
LC_COLLATE = "en_US",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_US",
LC_CTYPE = "he_IL.ISO-8859-8",
LC_TIME = "en_US",
LC_NAME = "en_US",
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> BTW: you have 'LANG' set to 'en_US' no point in explicitly setting
> LC_TIME and the rest of the gang in /etc/sysconfig/i18n
>
OK.
> BTW:[2] your LC_PAPER shouldn't really be en_US (letter), it should be
> some ISraeli or european locale to provide A4. Ditto for LC_MEASURMENT .
>
OK.
> Somehow en_UK (or is it en_GB ?) looks like a better English locale.
>
Why?
> One thing to try: look at 'rpm -ql locales-he' . Then 'strace ls' for a
> small directory, and see what locales files it opens.
>
Check:
http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ls.dump.txt
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> On my debian/unstable system it is /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive .
> (something newin glibc 2.3?)
>
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