[mythtv-users] codeset warning in mythfilldatabase?

[Karl Newman]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 01/16/2014 12:13 PM, Tom Dexter 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?
>>
>>
> The message from mythfilldatabase:
> "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')."
>
> "LANG=en_US.utf8"
>
> UTF-8 != utf8
>
> (While the comparison is case-insensitive, you're missing a hyphen.)
>
> How do I know for sure I'm supposed to use a hyphen and MythTV isn't just
> wrong?
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/479813#479813
>
> If your distro set things up incorrectly for you, please get them to fix
> their brokenness (and try to get others to fix their brokenness when you
> see this message posted to the list--which happens /way/ too often).  If
> your distro has renamed the charmap file that glibc calls "UTF-8.gz" to
> UTF8.gz (without the hyphen), please let me know.
>
>
> Mike
>

Yes, I meant to reply that I did in fact have a hyphen in mine. I
incorrectly posted the non-hyphenated string. I think I was confused
between the upper-case and the hyphen necessity. Sorry!

Karl
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