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From: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 01:25:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rro5da-ir6.ln1@hurikhan77.spdns.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAPi0psuhSV+aoMbRPzVyo7vHwkG8Xe+5ucq6RKQcC=EGtEU0=w@mail.gmail.com

Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> schrieb:

> 3. The handbook suggests that I should add this line to
> /etc/env.d/02locale: 'LC_COLLATE="C"', but I do not know if they are
> again talking about the language "DE".  RESOLUTION: I assumed
> LC_COLLATE=C refers to english and added the line without
> modification.

C refers to "as in C code"... Or something like that. What's essential: It 
tells the system to use the strings like they are recorded in the program 
file, without translating. In most cases that's English.

HTH
Kai



  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-05 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-05 18:25 [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 Chris Stankevitz
2013-08-05 18:53 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-08-05 18:57   ` Bruce Hill
2013-08-05 21:17     ` Mike Gilbert
2013-08-05 22:52   ` Chris Stankevitz
2013-08-05 23:25     ` Kai Krakow [this message]
2013-08-06 13:04     ` Kerin Millar
2013-08-06 13:24       ` Bruce Hill
2013-08-06 13:40         ` Kerin Millar
2013-08-06 14:26           ` Bruce Hill
2013-08-06 14:53             ` Kerin Millar
2013-08-06 15:51       ` Chris Stankevitz
2013-08-06 22:42       ` Stroller
2013-08-07 12:41         ` Kerin Millar
2013-08-07 16:40           ` Stroller
2013-08-07 22:27             ` Kerin Millar
2013-08-06 15:13     ` Mike Gilbert
2013-08-06 18:23       ` Chris Stankevitz
2013-08-07  0:58         ` Mike Gilbert

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