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List:       gentoo-amd64
Subject:    [gentoo-amd64]  Re: locale problems
From:       Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net>
Date:       2008-10-24 7:55:38
Message-ID: pan.2008.10.24.07.55.38 () cox ! net
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"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> posted
5bdc1c8b0810232008q5887e1a6p6f8ce0026d2268a3@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:08:55 -0700:

> Tonight when running k3b I got a message that it's upset of the
> character set. It says I'm using strange stuff I don't recognize:
> 
> System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 Your system's locale charset
> (i.e. the charset used to encode filenames) is set to ANSI_X3.4-1968. It
> is highly unlikely that this has been done intentionally. Most likely
> the locale is not set at all. An invalid setting will result in problems
> when creating data projects.
> Solution: To properly set the locale charset make sure the LC_*
> environment variables are set. Normally the distribution setup tools
> take care of this.

I don't know about the others, but I was getting this with k3b for some 
time.  It doesn't seem to affect anything.  I can still burn stuff just 
fine.  The disks read fine here, and I've had no complaints about burns 
I've made for others either, so it would seem k3b doesn't know what it is 
talking about.

I just ran k3b to see, and now it comes up with "No problems found in 
system configuration." <shrug>  It seems to have stopped as mysteriously 
as it started.

FWIW, I'm on ~amd64, running kde-3.5.10 and k3b-1.0.5-r3.  
LANG="en_US.UTF-8", as seen running "export" in a konsole window.

But while it's gone now, I did have that warning in k3b for some time, 
and it didn't seem to affect anything.  So I'd not worry too much about 
it.

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman


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