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Re: Slang (Sid)



On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:42:01PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
This is correct; my /etc/locale.gen also specifies that a en_US.ISO-8859-1
locale should be created, although I do not use it. Thus the character set does
need to be specified in the LANG environment variable.

- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy@kaplowitz.org



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