Bug#345639: marked as done (nl_langinfo(YESEXPR) ignores LANGUAGE, no apparent workaround)
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 03:28:58PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 06:18:16AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > There is no bug, LANGUAGE is only used to determine which message
> > catalog is displayed. Bug submitter should instead set LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
> > and LC_* variables to en_GB.UTF-8 if needed.
>
> Claudio, can you verify this?
>
> Denis, is there any documentation about the LC, LANG, LANGUAGE
> variables where I could read up on this stuff?
The only documentation that I know of is in libc.info, search for
LANGUAGE. But frankly you should not try to find workarounds,
they will break in some way, the best solution is to have sensible
locale variables.
Denis
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