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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 15:46:06
Message-Id: 20110531154425.GA10211@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale by David Relson
1 On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:19:16AM -0400, David Relson wrote:
2 > Why not use "echo >> ..." ??
3 >
4 > Since the ">>" does an append, the original file contents are still
5 > available for reference.
6 >
7 > Since the added line is at the end of the file, the new value will be
8 > used instead of the old value.
9
10 In this case though, to set the locale properly, you should set LANG or
11 LC_CTYPE and not set any of the other LC_* variables. If you are setting
12 the other variables, those settings should be removed.
13
14 William

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