[mythtv-users] codeset warning in mythfilldatabase?

[Tom Dexter]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
> 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
>

Technically having it in any file under /etc/env.d would probably
work.  However /etc/env.d/02locale is what gets written to by the
eselect program, and is intended to be updated my that.   If you
manually change the file to have LANG="en_US.UTF-8", eselect ends up
having that option added in addition to the existing en_US.utf8.  I
was hoping someone on the Gentoo forums would explain the "correct"
way to do it.  I don't even understand where that default en_US.uft8
in eselect even comes from, given that everything else involved has
the other name.

Tom