From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QKS6b-0006AZ-QF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 May 2011 09:22:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 845BB1C02E; Thu, 12 May 2011 09:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563881C02E for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 09:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yia25 with SMTP id 25so601086yia.40 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 02:21:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ep5zcXR5iGxsVdyhr32aYfVEmL/Vrl1Vz7+bozkL99A=; b=WWcJwJq6w/Jt/FgoSjYiW9XkXFZq7hPAYYyv0B1h5KRQAkCDsFXpr5nIzgiVzyjF9g NEj5swfHbueE39QovSHelJkbEG2iXQ+d+a1MCyZiGg5xHo8AJ477UHxtz+xoXz5To0Zh OOg7YdQ58qPRyqSkR9BQDy/BiQ1JJ8fLtrXpA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WfAqkkO8Xi+ZDeN8ejL+7FnHO+HSnpLiX+0xduBsn0+EWn10LWus9FCi6nN1zAGydK ZNjd1kaRCBLfUGlY5tCIh0FacGDs95xE2Cgn92Ep/HI7Hdn3alG/e/9clEe5NELhee3p uMECdplq2DAw1GkX3Vumgb89Jj1jBbp5ZsUrY= Received: by 10.236.116.166 with SMTP id g26mr12144103yhh.113.1305192088835; Thu, 12 May 2011 02:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-130-19.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.130.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w1sm678176anh.36.2011.05.12.02.21.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 12 May 2011 02:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DCBA695.8000202@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 04:21:25 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110501 Gentoo/2.0.14 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone? References: <4DC9B435.9010308@gmail.com> <4DC9BF0A.6040800@wonkology.org> <4DC9C5F0.4000303@gmail.com> <20110511003835.71388717@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4DC9CF35.7010503@gmail.com> <4DCA821F.8050904@gmail.com> <4DCA91D1.50505@gmail.com> <4DCAAE6E.9030809@gmail.com> <4DCABF2D.1090307@gmail.com> <4DCAF95A.5060807@kutulu.org> <4DCB12F3.2020007@gmail.com> <4DCB4B11.4030405@kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: <4DCB4B11.4030405@kutulu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 68983207ce33f2760a5af1c2c650e49c Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 5/11/2011 6:51 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Does this look more better? >> >> root@fireball / # locale >> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF8" >> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF8" >> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF8" >> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF8" >> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF8" >> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF8" > >> LC_PAPER, is that like paper in my printer? What the heck >> does it want my phone number, address and other stuff for? >> Some of that I get but some is just plain nosy. O_O > > These are all proposed, but ultimately rejected, POSIX extensions to > hold other standard, region-specific settings. glibc grabbed onto them > when the latest POSIX was still in draft status and implemented them. > > LC_PAPER is one of a few places that holds the default paper sizes (I > think Debian has an /etc/papersize or some such). It's kinda silly, > since "en_US" isn't a paper size, but roughly speaking, en_US = > "8.5x11 letter" and everything else = "A4". > > The others are for tracking: proper name format (e.g. family name > first or last); postal address format; telephone number format (local, > international, etc); units of measurement (imperial vs. metric); and > the standards that govern the rest of the formats. Support for them > is pretty sketchy and you can probably safely ignore them :) > > --Mike > > I wouldn't mind setting them myself. It may not matter much right now but we all know how things change. Going to see what Google can find. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)