[mythtv-users] codeset warning in mythfilldatabase?

Karl Newman newmank1 at asme.org
Thu Jan 16 17:20:43 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've been meaning to ask about this one.  When I run mythfilldatabase
> I get this warning:
>
> This application expects to be running a locale that specifies a UTF-8
> codeset, and many features may behave improperly with your current
> language settings. Please set the LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE, and LANG
> variable(s) in the environment in which this program is executed to
> include a UTF-8 codeset (such as 'en_US.UTF-8')
>
> Yet all that seems correct in my locale:
>
> tom at mythback ~ $ locale
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> Is anything actually wrong there, or is the warning erroneous?
>
> Thanks!
> Tom
>

I seem to recall that the locale settings are case-sensitive, so en_US.utf8
is not the same as en_US.UTF8. Mine are all set as the upper-case variant
and I don't think I get those messages anymore. Worth a try anyway...

Karl
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