Re: locales

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com>]

On Monday 07 October 2002 19:55, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can someone explain to me what locales are for and how to set them?
> I'm having some problems in openoffice which seem to be related to
> locale issues...  there's a man entry for "setlocale", which I would
> have thought to have been the right command, but debian doesn't find
> the command when I lok for it (even as sudo).  in any case, I don't
> really understnad the locale thing and would love to know more about
> what its function is supposed to be.  thaqnksm uch,
> matt

locales is how Linux (and other Unix systems) allow programs to display text 
in different languages.

setlocale is in man3 which means it is a function call in the standard 
library, not a stand alone program.

Perhaps you could send the errors you are receiving to this list and someone 
here might know the solution.