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Re: LC_MESSAGES and LANG



On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:22:55PM +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote:
> At Mon, 17 Jun 2002 06:39:54 -0700,
> Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Also, LANGUAGE that is a GNU-specific variable takes a high
> > > priority if LC_MESSAGES is non-C.
> > 
> > Can you elaborate more?  What is "a GNU-specific variable"?
> GNU C Library uses the LANGUAGE environment variable.
> However, LANGUAGE is not provided by Standard C, ISO, POSIX, etc.

I found it in "info Libc" of section "User influence on `gettext'" has:

...  In detail, for the category `LC_xxx' the following
variables in this order are examined:

 `LANGUAGE'
 `LC_ALL'
 `LC_xxx'
 `LANG'

...  While for the `LC_xxx' variables the value should consist of exactly
one specification of a locale the `LANGUAGE' variable's value can
consist of a colon separated list of locale names.

Interesting :) Now I understand minimum info for locale THING.
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+  Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com> @ Cupertino, CA USA         +


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