Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:32:55
Message-Id: 201105312131.11304.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale by William Hubbs
1 On Tuesday 31 May 2011 16:44:25 William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:19:16AM -0400, David Relson wrote:
3 > > Why not use "echo >> ..." ??
4 > >
5 > > Since the ">>" does an append, the original file contents are still
6 > > available for reference.
7 > >
8 > > Since the added line is at the end of the file, the new value will be
9 > > used instead of the old value.
10 >
11 > In this case though, to set the locale properly, you should set LANG or
12 > LC_CTYPE and not set any of the other LC_* variables. If you are setting
13 > the other variables, those settings should be removed.
14
15 Unless you want some of them to be different?
16
17 --
18 Regards,
19 Mick

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