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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-07-11 16:36:24 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-07-11 16:36:24 +0000
commitc800f787e9cda8db7a9f97fe38f5deddda5e1774 (patch)
tree31c111412ff782c5fd9b9b44af25aa8b120db9ee
parent9b41802b14f327fd5e9cc229428b73683b9d2fa9 (diff)
Added clarifying text to section 7.9 concerning charmap specifications.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7654 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml6
-rw-r--r--chapter07/profile.xml14
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index da0e0b437..163754648 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -39,10 +39,16 @@
<para>July 11, 2006</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] - Added clarifying text to section 7.9 concerning
+ charmap specifications. Thanks to Dan Nicholson.
+ Closes ticket #1813.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[bdubbs] - Moved text in section 5.7 "Adjusting the Toolchain"
referencing TCL out of the caution and into its own note so it does not
get included later in gcc-pass2.
Closes ticket #1822.</para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.24.
Closes ticket #1808.</para>
diff --git a/chapter07/profile.xml b/chapter07/profile.xml
index 4cfa2c7e7..112c9a768 100644
--- a/chapter07/profile.xml
+++ b/chapter07/profile.xml
@@ -124,12 +124,14 @@ LC_ALL=&lt;locale name&gt; locale int_prefix</userinput></screen>
<screen><computeroutput>Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C</computeroutput></screen>
- <para>Sometimes it is possible to fix this by removing the charmap part of the
- locale specification, as long as that does not change the character map that
- Glibc associates with the locale (this can be checked by running the
- <command>locale charmap</command> command in both locales). For example, one
- would have to change &quot;de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro&quot; to
- &quot;de_DE@euro&quot; in order to get this locale recognized by Xlib.</para>
+ <para>Here Xlib expects that the character map will be listed in uppercase
+ notation with canonical dashes. For instance, "ISO-8859-1" rather than
+ "iso88591". It is sometimes possible to fix this by removing the charmap part
+ of the locale specification, as long as that does not change the character
+ map that Glibc associates with the locale. This can be checked by running
+ the <command>locale charmap</command> command in both locales. For example,
+ one would have to change "de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro" to "de_DE@euro" in order to
+ get this locale recognized by Xlib.</para>
<para>Other packages can also function incorrectly (but may not necessarily
display any error messages) if the locale name does not meet their expectations.