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Re: /etc/environment



Dear


On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:19:13PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> 
> The only place I found LANG=C appeared to be /etc/environment, and
> changing this to LANG='' appears to have solved the problem.
> 
> Why is LANG set to C from /etc/environment; which package puts this in?
> And what does LANG=C mean to programs in general?
> 

LANG is variable in bash. man bash has shown me that LANG is being
used to set up default locale behaviour if other LC_* variables are not
set. 

Good that you find that, now I can use mutt in iso-8859-2 mode. Really cool.

However, I don't know what "C" means. 


Sincerely,
Marko Cehaja









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