david baron

Most everything I try to do, packages, compiles, etc., kick on the env locale.

They say make sure your environment has (and the kernel supports):
LANG=en_ENus
LC not set
LANGUAGE=en_us

(Yes, the US rules the world!)

I may have my arguments with the parenthetical alleged fact but it is a fact
that my enviromonent has exactly these items , no LC. Knoppix defaults to
German but seeing all the keyboards and options around, I cannot believe that
the kernel does not support en_us.

How do I fix this.


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colin watson

en_US, not either en_ENus or en_us. Also make sure you've enabled that
locale with 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'.


The kernel has nothing to do with locale support.

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osamu aoki

Like Colin said, it has nothing to do with Kernel.

It is one of glibc thing.

locales GNU C Library: National Language (locale) ...

# apt-get install locales
# dpkg-reconfigure locales
... select one you need


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jan minar

IIRC, en_US is the canonical version, but at the end of the day, the
capitalization doesn't matter, nor do some non-alphabetical characters.
They are treated equally by the C library routines. I poke around the
manpages, but was unable to verify this. Am I wrong, Colin?

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colin watson

As far as I can tell I'm afraid you're wrong. Quickest example I can
think of:

[cjwatson@cairhien ~/tmp]$ mkdir locale
[cjwatson@cairhien ~/tmp]$ cd locale
[cjwatson@cairhien ~/tmp/locale]$ touch a B
[cjwatson@cairhien ~/tmp/locale]$ echo $LC_COLLATE
C
[cjwatson@cairhien ~/tmp/locale]$ ls
B a
[cjwatson@cairhien ~/tmp/locale]$ LC_COLLATE=en_GB ls
a B
[cjwatson@cairhien ~/tmp/locale]$ LC_COLLATE=en_gb ls
B a

Looking briefly through glibc/locale, it generally seems to use
strcmp(), not strcasecmp().

Cheers,

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