Missing Localization

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Hi!

Calculate installs perfectly on my computer as long as I chose the default english locale.

Unfortunately the swiss locale for my keyboard is not available. Right after install I could fix this by defining the additional locale in /etc/locale.gen file, adding the line:
de_CH.utf8 UTF-8 # German language, Switzerland, UTF-8 encoding

I could then run the locale-gen command, which would generate the locales specified in the /etc/locale.gen file and write them to the locale-archive (/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive)

By by running the command locale -a I would get a list of the available locales.

And by localedef --list-archive I would get the content of the /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive file.

Then the eselect command allowed me to set the desired locale.

Unfortunately, after an update of the system the whole mechanism changes.

I tried to modify the files
/var/db/repos/calculate/profiles/templates/2_ac_install_merge/sys-libs/glibc/locale.gen
/var/db/repos/calculate/profiles/templates/3_ac_install_live/1-merge/sys-libs/glibc/locale.gen
/etc/locale.gen.clt

but this would not work, the locale
de_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8
is not recognized.

How to preceed? Could you possibly include the swiss locale in Calculate?

Thanks, any help is very much appreciated
Urs

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Hi!
Sorry for long reply.
Can you try to do cat /etc/locale.gen > /etc/locale.gen.clt && echo 'de_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8' >> /etc/locale.gen' and then run cl-setup-locale? It seems like problem not in templates, so lets try to use calculate utils

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Hi akrasnyh
Thanks for the help, it works!
I started all over, without my first mentioned command line modifications. I could then open the keyboard utility, “include the less-common layouts in the selection list” and chose my keyboard. Now everything works perfectly.
Thanks a lot
Urs