>>> 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@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@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@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. Maybe it does, I don't know. Haven't ever used xfce to be able to say anything about something like that. As for the locales, I think you should only add the first two.
