Re: Woody: make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:53:04AM -0400, David Jackson wrote:
> Jeff --
> Thanks for you reply.
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> According to /etc/locale.gen this is the command to build locales.
> (and it worked)
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> dpkg-reconfigure locales
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> David
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Just a quick question on a related matter. I have been using this
machine for a while now. $LANG was always set to C. I installed the locales
package and reconfigured to en_US. What exactly does this do for me? I
know a lot of packages come with documentation and code that's for
languages other than English, and that stuff still gets installed on my
computer even though I have no use for it.
Could somebody please explain how locales work? Is it specific to Linux?
Specific to Debian?
I did a google search, but it didn't turn up anything authoritative.
Pointers to a good documentation source would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Andy
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