[mythtv-users] codeset warning in mythfilldatabase?

[Karl Newman]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> > On 01/16/2014 08:56 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >>>
> >>> "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.
> >>
> >> Yup, you're correct.  I just posted to the Gentoo forum on this,
> >>
> >> because I was easily able to correct this on the Gentoo machine I'm on
> >> right now, but the exact same thing on my myth boxes *refuses* to
> >> work:
> >>
> >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-981580-highlight-.html
> >>
> >> Mind boggling...no clue what's going on there.
> >
> >
> > What do you get from:
> >
> > find /usr/share/i18n -iname '*utf*'
> >
> > (assuming localedef --help lists "System's directory for character maps :
> > /usr/share/i18n/charmaps", as described in the post I linked above)?  I
> just
> > want to make sure Gentoo isn't changing things around from "vanilla"
> naming.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
>
> I get this:
>
> /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz
>
> I was able to get things working the way I wanted but only by
> expressly adding a file to the gentoo /etc/env.d that expressly set:
>
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>
> I'm still trying to find out if there's "correct" way of getting it right.
>
> Tom
>

According to this page: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/HOWTO you
just need to add that line in /etc/env.d/02locale

Karl
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