[arch-general] locale variables

[Arno Gaboury]

On 06/24/2012 04:28 PM, m a wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> I am fine tuning my Arch box, trying to understand and configuring step
> by step.
>
>> I just realised I didn't take care of all the file.pacnew in /etc, and I
> am now taking each one.
>> Now dealing with *locale.gen.pacnew
>> *I am not sure to fully understand the locale set up. My box is in
> English, but I am living in Switzerland, write and read english and french,
>> and uses a QWERTZU keyborad configured via keyborad layout in XFCE
> settings.
>
>> *[gabx at magnolia etc]$ locale -a
>> C
>> en_US
>> en_US.iso88591
>> en_US.utf8
>> POSIX*
>> It seems to me some lignes about French and euro are missing. Am I right?
> Looking at the list etc/locale.pacnew, I was thinking adding
>> these locales :
>> #fr_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
>> #fr_CH ISO-8859-1
>> #fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
>> #fr_FR ISO-8859-1
>> #fr_FR at euro ISO-8859-15
>> Am I right to add all these locales?
>> I understand I must run *$logal-gen* to add these modifications.
>> What should I do with the locale.gen.pacnew ?? How can I update my system
> correctly? I see that all locales are going to */usr/share/
>> i18n/locales*, and I guess locale.gen.pacnew will modify this list, but I
> have no idea how to do that.
>
>> TY for help.
>
>
> Have you uncommented these in /etc/locale.gen, and then did the "$
> locale-gen" thing?
>
> If you haven't, I think you should do it. And then merge the .pacnew file
> with the old one.
My only /etc/locale.gen is shown as a binary, with type "Genesis ROM" in 
Thunar (XFCE). Seems strange, as I can see it as a text file when using 
a text editor (maybe the .gen extension is mistaking Thunar).

So I shall edit it and uncomment the following lines :

#fr_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
#fr_CH ISO-8859-1
#fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
#fr_FR ISO-8859-1
#fr_FR at euro ISO-8859-15

Then merge with locale.gen.pacnew?

That's fine, but doesn't tell me IF I really need these locales on my system.