Re: The environment variable $LANGUAGE

[Florian Rehnisch <fr@fm-r.eu>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 09:34:10AM +0100, Harald Krause wrote:
> Does anybody know, where the initial setting for $LANGUAGE is stored or
> where to find respective information?
> 
> Background: During the installation of debian (sid) I choose to have
> german, english, italien and spanish available (perhaps a stupid idea).
> The output of locale (as root) is:
> 
> # locale
> 
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=de:en_GB:it:es
> LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
> ...
> LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
> LC_ALL=""
> 
> I know how to "fix" this settings in profile, bashrc ... but I am very
> much interested to understand, where Debian stores this "initial"
> setting. The environment variable $LANGUAGE proves that dbian sid does
> store/"remember" this initial setting.

1. I would guess they're stored in /etc/default/locale.

2. This is a mainly German speaking mailing list.

3. Wir befassen uns hier hauptsaechlich mit der Uebersetzung von Debian
   in Deutsche.

4. Hmm, ich seh grad, in Stretch scheinen die auf locale bezogenen
   Handbuchseiten noch nicht uebersetzt zu sein.

 fr