Changeset 6365b5d

Timestamp:

Jan 23, 2014, 11:48:20 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

William Harrington <kb0iic@…>

Branches:

clfs-3.0.0-systemd, clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit, master, systemd, sysvinit

Children:

ecc91b33

Parents:

ed3648a

Message:

Update locale configuration regarding systemd.

File:

• BOOK/bootscripts/common/locale.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

BOOK/bootscripts/common/locale.xml

@@ -14 +14 @@
   </indexterm>
 
-  <para>The file <filename>/etc/locale.conf</filename> file configures
-  system-wide locale settings. The basic file format of locale.conf is a
-  newline-separated list of variable assignments. It is possible to source this
-  configuration file from shell scripts, but it should never contain any shell
-  script features beyond variable assignments. The
-  <filename>locale.conf</filename> man page contains information about the
-  function of this file. Setting up this file properly results in:</para>
+  <para>The <filename>/etc/locale.conf</filename> below sets some environment
+  variables necessary for native language support. Setting them properly
+  results in:</para>
 
   <itemizedlist>
@@ -27 +23 @@
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Correct classification of characters into letters, digits and
-      other classes. This is necessary for <command>bash</command> to
-      properly accept non-ASCII characters in command lines in non-English
-      locales</para>
+      <para>Correct classification of characters into letters, digits and other
+      classes. This is necessary for <command>bash</command> to properly accept
+      non-ASCII characters in command lines in non-English locales</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
@@ -48 +43 @@
   appropriate country (e.g., <quote>GB</quote> or <quote>US</quote>).
   <replaceable>[charmap]</replaceable> should be replaced with the
-  canonical charmap for your chosen locale.</para>
+  canonical charmap for your chosen locale. Optional modifiers such as
+  <quote>@euro</quote> may also be present.</para>
 
   <para>The list of all locales supported by Glibc can be obtained by running
@@ -71 +67 @@
 
   <para>This results in a final locale setting of <quote>en_US.UTF-8</quote>.
-  It is important that the locale found using the heuristic above is tested prior
-  to it being added to <filename>/etc/locale.conf</filename>:</para>
+  It is important that the locale found using the heuristic above is tested
+  prior to it being added to <filename>/etc/locale.conf</filename>:</para>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>LC_ALL=[locale name] locale territory 
@@ -108 +104 @@
 
   <para>Other packages can also function incorrectly (but may not necessarily
-  display any error messages) if the locale name does not meet their expectations.
-  In those cases, investigating how other Linux distributions support your locale
-  might provide some useful information.</para>
+  display any error messages) if the locale name does not meet their
+  expectations. In those cases, investigating how other Linux distributions
+  support your locale might provide some useful information.</para>
 
   <para>Once the proper locale settings have been determined, create the
@@ -118 +114 @@
 <literal># Begin /etc/locale.conf
 
-LANG=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable>.<replaceable>[charmap]</replaceable>
+LANG=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable>.<replaceable>[charmap]</replaceable><replaceable>[@modifiers]</replaceable>
 
 # End /etc/locale.conf</literal>
 EOF</userinput></screen>
 
+  <para>Note that you can modify <filename>/etc/locale.conf</filename> with
+  Systemd <command>localectl</command> utility. To use
+  <command>localectl</command> for the example above, run:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>localectl set-locale LANG="<replaceable>[ll]_[CC][charmap][@modifiers]</replaceable>"</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para>You can also specify other language specific environment variables such
+  as <envar>LANG</envar>, <envar>LC_CTYPE</envar>, <envar>LC_NUMERIC</envar> or
+  any other environment variable from <command>locale</command> output. Just
+  seperate them with a space. An example where <envar>LANG</envar> is set as
+  en_US.UTF-8 but <envar>LC_CTYPE</envar> is set as just en_US is:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="en_US"</userinput></screen>
+
+  <note><para>Please note that <command>localectl</command> command can
+  be used  only on a system booted with Systemd.</para></note>
   <para>Setting the keyboard layout, screen font, and locale-related
   environment variables are the only internationalization steps needed to