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On 5/11/2011 6:51 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> Does this look more better? |
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> root@fireball / # locale |
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> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF8" |
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> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF8" |
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> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF8" |
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> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF8" |
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> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF8" |
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> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF8" |
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> LC_PAPER, is that like paper in my printer? What the heck |
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> does it want my phone number, address and other stuff for? |
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> Some of that I get but some is just plain nosy. O_O |
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These are all proposed, but ultimately rejected, POSIX |
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extensions to hold other standard, region-specific settings. |
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glibc grabbed onto them when the latest POSIX was still in |
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draft status and implemented them. |
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LC_PAPER is one of a few places that holds the default paper |
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sizes (I think Debian has an /etc/papersize or some such). |
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It's kinda silly, since "en_US" isn't a paper size, but |
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roughly speaking, en_US = "8.5x11 letter" and everything |
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else = "A4". |
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The others are for tracking: proper name format (e.g. family |
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name first or last); postal address format; telephone number |
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format (local, international, etc); units of measurement |
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(imperial vs. metric); and the standards that govern the |
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rest of the formats. Support for them is pretty sketchy and |
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you can probably safely ignore them :) |
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--Mike |
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