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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:32:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FAA8C42E-AE24-4403-9146-6E0D201412CB@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h38hgm$cm5$1@ger.gmane.org>


On 11 Jul 2009, at 00:05, walt wrote:
> On 07/10/2009 02:48 PM, Stroller wrote:
> ...
>>
>>
>> Googling "LC_* environment variables" turns up this doc:
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3
>> ...
> Unless you have some very arcane lanuage needs you can just set the
> value of LC_ALL instead of worrying about nine different ones.

FWIW the linked Gentoo Linux Localization Guide specifically warns  
against this:

"Warning: Using LC_ALL is strongly discouraged as it can't be  
overridden later on. Please use it only when testing and never set it  
in a startup file."

Stroller.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-10 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-10 21:48 [gentoo-user] LC_ locale settings for UK / GB Stroller
2009-07-10 23:02 ` Peter Ruskin
2009-07-10 23:19   ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-07-10 23:30   ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2009-07-10 23:05 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-07-10 23:32   ` Stroller [this message]
2009-07-11  3:49 ` ABCD
2009-07-11 18:35   ` walt
2009-07-11 20:13     ` Stroller
2009-07-11 21:02       ` walt
2009-07-13 22:35       ` [gentoo-user] " ABCD

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