Re: Environment variables "LANG*" and "LC_*"
Javier Martinez <[email protected]> Thu, 14 May 2026 17:09:52 +0200
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El 13/5/26 a las 18:35, Dale escribió: > 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 > > :-) :-) > I think the recommended one is C, maybe some maintainer tryies to set "one safety environment" setting their own locale to hook up for example greek, russian etc that could get different unicodes, it's usually not a bad idea to have some general locales enabled even if we are not going to use it, for example en_US, es_ES etc since probably it will cover all scenaries
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