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On 12/5/2011, at 12:31am, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 11 May 2011 22:14:55 Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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>> The only problem with LC_ALL is that it overrides all of the other LC_* |
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>> variables. |
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> - which is precisely what most ordinary desktop users want. |
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No, I think they want all locale variables to be right. That may be achieved by setting LC_ALL, but you are advised, I believe, to set only LANG. You haven't justified why LC_ALL is better. |
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> ... Personally, I have no intention of ever allowing US |
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> "English" to pollute any of my boxes (no offence meant to anyone here), so |
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> LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" suits me (so far - until I trip over something!). |
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Could you possibly post the output of `date +"%l:%M%P"`? |
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In doing so you'd be doing me a favour. |
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Stroller. |