Re: locale problems?

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>On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 06:32:32PM +0400, Polakov Alexander wrote:
>> I'm getting errors like "aterm: Cannot set locale", when I run aterm, and like this "(gedit:803): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale." when I run gedit from terminal. And I can not do any input in russian in non-gtk2 (plain X) programs and in my user's console. It's OK in root's console.
>> I have: FreeBSD darkstar 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun  7 20:16:06 MSD 2005     root_at_darkstar:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSL2  i386
>> LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R
>> Locale is set by user's class russian.
>> Maybe some additional info? Everything was fine when I used 5.4-STABLE.
>>  Alexander Polakov
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>Yes, this happens on an upgrade.  I cover it on a page I have about
>Japanese in *nix at http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html
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>The safest solution (and recommended by the gentleman who committed the
>change to LC_CTYPE is to copy an old /usr/share/local/ somewhere and set
>the environment variable PATH_LOCALE to point to it. 
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>The risky way (though I haven't been bitten by it on a test box) is to
>add at the top of libmap.conf
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>libc.so.5 	libc.so.6
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>The most tedious way is to do a portupgrade -f of just about everything
>that has any remote connection with your use of Russian.  I did that on
>one box that only had a few programs, but on my main workstation, which
>has about 200, I gave up.  :)
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>(The way to tell if a program needs to be forcefully upgraded is to do 
>ldd `which perl`
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>(Substituting perl with the program name)  If one of the answers is
>libc.so.5 then that program has to be upgraded.  You should start with
>perl, as the first one.)
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>HTH
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Thanks a lot. I'll do portupgrade -arRf.