Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:29:48 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Neil Short <neshort@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xorg 7.2 & environment variables set in login.conf Message-ID: <20070605182948.E31B845042@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:54:32 PDT." <958545.72886.qm@web56513.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:54:32 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Neil Short <neshort@yahoo.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
>
>
> --- Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> > On 2007-06-03 07:38 -0700, Neil Short
> > <neshort@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > How do you export those variables successfully in
> > > ~/.xsession? It still doesn't help with me.
> > >
> > > check this out:
> > >
> > > $ locale
> > > LANG=en_US
> >
> > This is not a valid locale! You have a choice
> > between:
> >
> > en_US.ISO8859-1
> > en_US.ISO8859-15
> > en_US.US-ASCII
> > en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > [...]
> > > $ echo $LC_ALL
> > > en_US
> > > $ perl
> > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale
> > settings:
> > > LC_ALL = (unset),
> > > LANG = "en_US"
> > > are supported and installed on your system.
> > > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale
> > ("C").
> >
> > Yes, and perl tells you, that en_US just isn't
> > specific enough
> > for its needs ...
> >
> > It's up to you whether you prefer en_US.US-ASCII,
> > en_US.ISO8859-1,
> > or en_US.UTF-8 (e.g. depending on whether you at
> > least occasionally
> > work with foreign language texts).
> >
> > Regards, STefan
> >
>
> That did the trick. I appreciate it.
> Just for the documentation of it all -- I messed up by
> putting my language setting under the "default:"
> catagory in /etc/login.conf.
> I needed to ALSO create a separate "me:" catagory like
> so:
> me:\
> :tc=default:
>
> I suppose the real moral to the story is: be very
> careful what you overwrite during mergemaster. It's my
> guess that I overwrote /etc/login.conf at some point
> when my eyes were glassed over.
And 'mergemaster -U' is probably your best friend for letting you be
very, very careful without spending all day doing the merge.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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