Re: Default locale

[Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>]

racke@linuxia.de (Stefan Hornburg (Racke)) writes:

> Thanks for the answer ! I try this out. Fonts aren't needed.
> I just thought it would make sense to set the locale for
> a software in the same way the system is configured.

I don't think it's a good idea to use environment variable setting in
this case.  People might use 'sudo apt-get install $PACKAGE', and this
inherits the current user environment settings, and does not resort to
the system defaults.

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