Re: Environment variables "LANG*" and "LC_*"

On 5/13/26 4:41 AM, Philipp Ludwig wrote:
> Am 2026-05-13 11:01, schrieb Dr Rainer Woitok:
>> Philipp,
>>
>> On Wednesday, 2026-05-13 07:40:24 +0200, you wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> As far as I believe, there are some build processes that explicitly
>>> run
>>> under
>>> en_US.utf8 for a variety of reasons.
>> Is this documented somewhere, in particular the variety of reasons?
>> As
>> I mentioned in my original mail this warning appeared for the first
>> time
>> after upgrading to  "sys-apps/locale-gen-3.10" and
>> "sys-libs/glibc-2.42-
>> r5".
> Not as I know of. I have only encountered it when going through Linux
>   From Scratch
> (https://linuxfromscratch.org/) and when building custom embedded
> systems.
> There are a couple of programs like parser generators that basically
> depend on
> en_US.utf-8; for example, some test routines check the output of
> time-related
> functions and may expect the US format in their tests.
>
> I can't say why this appear now, as I have used en_US.utf-8 as a default
> for years now.
>
> (Some of my colleagues use de_DE.utf-8 though.)
>
> Best regards
>


I recall it being the the install guide when I was installing Gentoo on 
this newer rig.  I have to admit tho, it is frustrating to get that 
thing set up correctly.  It usually takes me a few tries and I hate when 
it changes and I have to redo it.

I can't get a link right now.  It seems Gentoo is blocking the IPs for 
my VPN.  The Gentoo sites haven't been working for me for a while.  I 
notice a few other sites doing the same.  It's funny how they say people 
should do more to keep themselves secure but when they do things to be 
secure, they block you.  LOL

Dale

:-)  :-)