Bug#325718: libc6: cannot set individual locale variables

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:53:51PM +0200, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> I cannot set individual LC variables:
> 
> mlennert@moritz:~$ locale
> LANG=fr_BE
> LC_CTYPE="fr_BE"
> LC_NUMERIC="fr_BE"
> LC_TIME="fr_BE"
> LC_COLLATE="fr_BE"
> LC_MONETARY="fr_BE"
> LC_MESSAGES="fr_BE"
> LC_PAPER="fr_BE"
> LC_NAME="fr_BE"
> LC_ADDRESS="fr_BE"
> LC_TELEPHONE="fr_BE"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_BE"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_BE"
> LC_ALL=fr_BE

Note: this means that LC_ALL is already set in your environment. 
LC_ALL is documented to override all the other environment variables.
So it's completely expected that changing LC_NUMERIC has no effect.


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