Bug#311259: error and omission in documentation of LANGUAGE
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:48:55PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > drow@nevyn:~% env - LANG=de_DE cat -h
> > cat: Ungültige Option -- h
> > ,,cat --help" gibt weitere Informationen.
> >
> > With just LANG set, LC_MESSAGES and LC_CTYPE are inferred from LANG.
>
> Sure, this is the well established behavior documented in POSIX.
Completely agreed.
> > drow@nevyn:~% env - LANGUAGE=de_DE cat -h
> > cat: invalid option -- h
> > Try `cat --help' for more information.
> >
> > With just LANGUAGE set, LC_MESSAGES and LC_CTYPE are not inferred
> > from LANG, because of the choice I think we need to document.
> ^^^^^^^^^ Do you mean: from LANGUAGE?
Yes. *blush* the point of giving examples was so that I could be
precise, typos are not making this any easier...
> > They remain as C.
>
> Yes, LANGUAGE is only checked to select message catalogs, nothing else.
This is also not documented. And it's surprising - to me anyway. The
documentation presents it as an extension to LANG.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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