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From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 12:02:11
Message-Id: 4DCBCBCD.7000704@kutulu.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone? by Dale
1 On 5/12/2011 5:21 AM, Dale wrote:
2 > Mike Edenfield wrote:
3 >> On 5/11/2011 6:51 PM, Dale wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> Does this look more better?
6 >>>
7 >>> root@fireball / # locale
8 >>> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF8"
9 >>> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF8"
10 >>> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF8"
11 >>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF8"
12 >>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF8"
13 >>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF8"
14
15 >> The others are for tracking: proper name format (e.g.
16 >> family name first or last); postal address format;
17 >> telephone number format (local, international, etc); units
18 >> of measurement (imperial vs. metric); and the standards
19 >> that govern the rest of the formats. Support for them is
20 >> pretty sketchy and you can probably safely ignore them :)
21
22 > I wouldn't mind setting them myself. It may not matter much
23 > right now but we all know how things change. Going to see
24 > what Google can find.
25
26 They're already set, as your locale output showed :) The
27 definitions of those various formats are built into the
28 locale definitions, so they should have the same value as
29 all your other LC_* variables.
30
31 You can see your locale's idea of what those things mean in
32 the localedef file (bring alone a Unicode character chart):
33
34 /usr/share/i18n/locale/en_US
35
36 --Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone? Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>