Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

[Mick]

On Tuesday 22 June 2010 17:14:13 Christopher Swift wrote:
> Ar Maw, 2010-06-22 am 14:38 +0100, ysgrifennodd Mick:
> > I'm also interested in this - although my question is probably simpler:
> >
> > I would like to use en_GB but I do not undestand why running 'locale'
> > as a plain user shows:
> >
> > $ locale
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> > LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > why when running it as root:
> >
> > # locale
> > LANG=
> > LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
> > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
> > LC_TIME="POSIX"
> > LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
> > LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
> > LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
> > LC_PAPER="POSIX"
> > LC_NAME="POSIX"
> > LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
> > LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
> > LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
> > LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
> > LC_ALL=
> >
> >
> > I do not have set a /etc/env.d/02locale yet, so where is my plain user
> > locale being read from?
>
> Your plain user locale is usually read from ~/.bashrc, this can be set
> to en_GB by having the following lines:
> export LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
> export LC_COLLATE="C"

I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain user locale 
reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale?

I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user still shows 
all settings as "en_US.UTF-8" ... where is this US setting read from?

Thanks,

-- 
Regards,
Mick