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| From: | Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings | ||
| Date: | Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:26:18 | ||
| Message-Id: | CAPi0pssVh5F36D2=ftJtNSL8t3uJbh4XgvO9Uu0UsJQ_4dw0nw@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings by Joshua Murphy |
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| 1 | On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 | > A 'locale' is a collection of character set, language, date/time |
| 3 | > format, currency format, etc |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Josh, |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Thank you. I now understand what a "locale" is. It is surprising to |
| 8 | me that the string "en_US.UTF8" tells the OS about currency, |
| 9 | date/time, etc. I always thought "UTF8" was just a "character |
| 10 | encoding" (not really sure what that is either but I would not have |
| 11 | guessed that UTF8 describes where the commas go in a currency). |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Thanks again, |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Chris |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Having the possibility to set the system-wide locale settings | Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> |