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Bug#176661: locale.1 does not mention LOCPATH



> setlocale is affected by LOCPATH, and it probably is worth mentioning in locale.1
> manual page.
> 
> --- locale.1.orig       2003-01-14 21:30:42.000000000 +0900
> +++ locale.1    2003-01-14 21:31:13.000000000 +0900
> @@ -233,6 +233,11 @@
>  .Vb 1
>  \&        Metadata about the locale information.
>  .Ve
> +\&\s-1LOCPATH\s0
> +.PP
> +.Vb 1
> +\&        The directory where locale data is stored
> +.Ve
>  .SH "AUTHOR"
>  .IX Header "AUTHOR"
>  \&\fIlocale\fR was written by Ulrich Drepper for the \s-1GNU\s0 C Library.

It's easy to add this description, but why is this needed?  Who do use
it?  Please explain to me.

BTW, other environment variables are not the same to LOCPATH; they are
POSIX-defined locale behavior specific environment variables, not
setlocale() specific variable.

Regards,
-- gotom



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