Re: Unhelpful error message

["Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg tristatelogic com>]

In message <1381012432 7506 9 camel rook>, you wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 14:27 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> > OK, I did what you suggested and this is all I get:
> >
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > So now what?  You are apparently saying that my OS (FreeBSD) simply doesn't
> > support that, or else isn't currently configured to support that, correct?
> >
> > OK, so what exactly does GTK need from the OS in order to cause it to
> > quite griping about this purported lack of OS support for en_US.UTF-8?
> >
> > (Sorry to be so dense, but I am feeling my way in the dark here. I don't
> > know nada about internationalization, either specifically or generally.)
>
> There is no generic answer. It very much depends on your OS and your
> system's C library.
>
> Several Linux distros (at least Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo) provide a
> script called locale-gen which generates and installs locale definitions
> which for whatever reason (e.g. in a minimal install designed to save
> disk space) weren't installed already. All of these scripts are
> different from each other and only work with (e)glibc. But maybe FreeBSD
> has something similar. Or maybe it has something different.
>
> Please consult FreeBSD documentation.

Thanks, I shall do that.

There does not seem to be any "locale-gen" on my system.