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 1MPhQe-0001fh-NV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:36:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54032E023B; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E71E023B for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E1966A97 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:36:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.056 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.056 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.457, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id V8WP+YL1wuJJ for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA4F766740 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:35:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MPhQQ-0007ma-Nq for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:35:54 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-200-62.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.200.62]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:35:54 +0000 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-200-62.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:35:54 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB. Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:35:41 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6DF38B2C-68C3-4B3A-8AC2-9F4E1990218A@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-200-62.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090711 Shredder/3.0b3pre In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: aae5890d-ef1c-4912-95f9-b3f74a087c0d X-Archives-Hash: 5d32a94aaa71cacf1d5ec32cad1c178c On 07/10/2009 08:49 PM, ABCD wrote: > ... > Because I'm seeing some strange things in this thread, let me elucidate > as to what the various LANG/LC_* variables do: > > LANG > sets the default for LC_*, if unset, defaults to "C" > > LC_CTYPE [charset] > LC_NUMERIC [number format] > LC_TIME [time format] > LC_COLLATE [sort order] > LC_MONETARY [money format] > LC_MESSAGES [message language] > LC_PAPER [paper size] > LC_NAME [given/family name format] > LC_ADDRESS [mailing address format] > LC_TELEPHONE [country code, etc.] > LC_MEASUREMENT [US customary, SI, etc.] > LC_IDENTIFICATION [???] > Used as their names suggest, for the various things that can be > done with locales. Default to $LANG, if $LANG is unset, defaults > to "C". > > LC_ALL > Override for LC_*. If LC_ALL is set, then LC_* is ignored, and the > value of LC_ALL is used for everything. *Do not* set this in env.d > unless you know exactly what you are doing. (Setting LC_ALL=C to > disable all locale settings, for instance). Thanks for the clarification. The only reason I can think of for *not* setting LC_ALL is that some users on a multi-user system might want to use a different language. Am I missing something else important?