On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:26:42AM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: > <nitpicking> > Specifying the character set in LANG seems redundant to me if > you do it in locale.gen as well. Not entirely shure tough. > </nitpicking> Unless I'm mistaken, /etc/locale.gen specifies which locales are generated (and thus available), while the LANG environment variable selects which locale will actually be used by a particular process. -- - mdz