Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:46:38AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
> > More testing shows that the LANGUAGE variable can be used when the
> > country is unknown. It only works when the LANG variable is set to an
> > existing locale. The nice ting about the LANGUAGE variable is that is
> > accepts language codes, not locale names.
>
> Apparently, someone knew this. I checked the CVS log for
> dbootstrap/util.c, and discovered that user aph inserted
> LANGUAGE=<langcode> 2001-11-20. Then the user pb changed this to
> LANG=<langcode> 2002-01-07. This obviously triggered the warning from
> perl, and blade changed this to LANG_INST=<langcode> 2002-02-10.
>
> There seem to be some confusion. Why was LANGUAGE= changed to LANG=?
>
> Which program is the intended receiver of this value?
Not only that, but base-config has also been changed to accommodate
some of those other changes. I'd recommend checking its status now too.
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