Aragorn wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Sorry to bother you again with my confusion, but I'm trying to implement
> systemwide locales settings, and it would seem there's a difference in the
> available locales between Gentoo and my old Mandrake...

It might not solve your doubts, but did you reed the gentoo localization
guide?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml