also sprach nori heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> [2002.10.30.1920 +0100]: > wait, did i just hear you admit that there is something linux can't do > with a little careful reading of manpages, random experimentation, and > and a few minutes of scripting? ;) you heard me say that i don't have the time to dive into it. i am sure linux can do it, at the very moment i am a little sad that it can't be as easy as 1-2-3... > and i don't know anything about the paper format or why phone > numbers have anything to do with locales. do you know what locales are? they control all forms of localization. and while (xxx) xxx-xxxx may seem standard to people in the US, and the Letter-sized paper may be the default for 260 Mio. people, other countries tend to do things differently ;^>. in fact, run `locale` and look at the variable names to get some idea of what can be controlled with locales... > nimmersatt with linux, of course ;^> -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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