Changeset a4495da for chapter07

Timestamp:

04/17/2005 11:03:59 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Jim Gifford <jim@…>

Children:

af9b59e

Parents:

a2d4711a

Message:

Text updates from Matt

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/multi-arch/BOOK@4993 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Location:

chapter07

Files:

• profile.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• udev.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter07/profile.xml

@@ -62 +62 @@
 two-letter code for the desired language (e.g., <quote>en</quote>) and
 <replaceable>[CC]</replaceable> with the two-letter code for the
-appropriate country (e.g., <quote>GB</quote>). It may also be
-necessary to specify (and this is actually the preferred form) the
-character encoding (e.g.  <quote>iso8859-1</quote>) after a dot (so
-that the result is <quote>en_GB.iso8859-1</quote>).  Issue the
-following command for more information:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>man 3 setlocale</userinput></screen>
+appropriate country (e.g., <quote>GB</quote>).
+<replaceable>[charmap]</replaceable> should be replaced with the
+canonical charmap for your chosen locale.</para>
 
 <para>The list of all locales supported by Glibc can be obtained by running
@@ -74 +70 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>locale -a</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Locales can have a number of synonyms, e.g. <quote>ISO-8859-1</quote> is
+also referred to as <quote>iso8859-1</quote> and <quote>iso88591</quote>.
+Some applications cannot handle the various synonyms correctly, so it is safest
+to choose the canonical name for a particular locale.  To determine the
+canonical name, run the following command, where
+<replaceable>[locale name]</replaceable> is the output given by
+<command>locale -a</command> for your preferred locale
+(<quote>en_GB.iso88591</quote> in our example).</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>LC_ALL=<replaceable>[locale name]</replaceable> locale charmap</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>For the <quote>en_GB.iso88591</quote> locale, the above command
+will print:</para>
+
+<screen>ISO-8859-1</screen>
+
+<para>This results in in a final locale setting of <quote>en_GB.ISO-8859-1</quote>.</para>
 
 <para>Once the proper locale settings have been determined, create the
@@ -81 +95 @@
 <literal># Begin /etc/profile
 
-export LC_ALL=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable>
-export LANG=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable>
+export LANG=<replaceable>[ll]</replaceable>_<replaceable>[CC]</replaceable>.<replaceable>[charmap]</replaceable>
 export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
 

chapter07/udev.xml

@@ -31 +31 @@
 resides entirely in memory and does not take up any disk space).
 Device nodes do not require much disk space, so the memory that is
-used in negligable.</para>
+used is negligible.</para>
 
 <sect2>
@@ -153 +153 @@
 <title>Handling Hotpluggable/Dynamic Devices</title>
 
-<para>When you plug in a device, such a Universal Serial Bus (USB) MP3 player, the kernel
+<para>When you plug in a device, such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) MP3 player, the kernel
 recognizes that the device is now connected and generates a hotplug
 event. If the driver is already loaded (either because it was compiled
@@ -160 +160 @@
 be called upon to create the relevant device node(s) according to the
 <systemitem class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> data available in
-<filename class="directory">/sys</filename>.  If the driver for the
-just plugged in device is available as a module but currently unloaded,
-then attaching the device to the system will only cause the kernel's
-bus driver to generate a hotplug event that notifies userspace of the
-new device connection and it not being attached to a driver. In
-effect, nothing happens and the device itself is not usable
-yet.</para>
-
-<para>If building a system that has a lot of drivers compiled as
-modules rather than directly built into the kernel, using the
-<command>S05modules</command> may not be practical. The Hotplug
-package (see <ulink url="http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/"/>) can
-be beneficial in these cases. When the Hotplug package is installed,
-it will respond to the aforementioned kernel's bus driver hotplug
-events. The Hotplug package will load the appropriate module and make
-this device available by creating the device node(s) for it.</para>
+<filename class="directory">/sys</filename>.</para>
+
+<para>If the driver for the just plugged in device is available as a module but
+currently unloaded, the Hotplug package will load the appropriate module
+and make this device available by creating the device node(s) for it.</para>
 </sect2>