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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: Wed, 11 May 2011 21:16:19
Message-Id: 4DCAFC4F.1080404@kutulu.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On 5/11/2011 12:02 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 05/11/2011 06:53 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> On 05/11/2011 06:42 PM, Dale wrote:
4 >>> That was quick:
5 >>>
6 >>> root@fireball / # grep LC_ALL /etc/env.d/*
7 >>> root@fireball / #
8 >>>
9 >>> Guess that is not in env.d anywhere. :/
10 >>
11 >> Then I guess you can create it on your own. See:
12 >>
13 >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3
14 >
15 > Heh, according to the guide I linked to, setting LC_ALL is a bad idea
16 > :-D So I guess the grep should have been:
17
18 The only problem with LC_ALL is that it overrides all of the other LC_*
19 variables. When looking for locale information for a given category, the
20 order is:
21
22 LC_ALL -> LC_{COLLATE|CTYPE|MESSAGES|TIME|NUMERIC|MONETARY} -> LANG
23
24 (glibc adds a bunch of other LC_* variables from a POSIX draft that
25 never got formalized.)
26
27 Setting just LANG= and setting just LC_ALL= have the same ultimate
28 result: every localization category uses the same locale. The difference
29 is that setting LC_ALL means you can't turn around and redefine, say,
30 just LC_TIME to use some other locale's format.
31
32 --Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>