Re: GDM and locales
On Don, 2003-09-11 at 11:26, Roland Mas wrote:
> Jean-Christophe Dubacq, 2003-09-11 10:50:16 +0200 :
>
> > As one who submitted several times trivial patches to enable gdm in
> > default locale language, I concurr. Right now (for woody and sarge),
> > the current way of setting the default locale for all programs is
> > sourcing /etc/environment.
>
> You don't source /etc/environment. You have to parse it. The reason
> being, it's not a shell file, just a series of KEY=VALUE lines. In
> particular, VALUE can have spaces in it yet not be quoted, and if you
> try to source it you're going to have problems.
LANG=`grep ^LANG= /etc/environment | sed -e "s/^LANG=//"`
..
would be a simple temproary solution until someone fixes the
default-language-problem.
ciao,
domi.
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