Re: Problem in checking for UTF locale

[Mikhail Sobolev <mss@transas.com>]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 04:26:55PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Il Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:08:44PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> > I am tring to compile the boot floppies images just checked out from
> > CVS. I have a problem during the make check:
> > 
> > checking for locale charset of en_IN UTF-8
> > add the line 'en_IN UTF-8' in /etc/locale.gen, and rerun locale-gen
> > make: *** [check_locale] Error 1
> 
> I made some more test and I think that the correct way to test if a
> locale is installed is to use
> 
> LC_ALL=en_IN locale charmap
This would be too strong.

> instead of LANG=en_IN locale charmap
And this maybe insufficient, if you have LC_{ALL,CTYPE} set in your environment.

IMHO,

    LC_CTYPE=en_IN locale charmap

would be the most appropriate.

--
Misha