Re: how to use the LANGUAGE environment variable
Incoming from Mirko Parthey:
> According to the glibc reference manual, LANGUAGE can contain a
> colon-separated list of locales to indicate their order of preference.
>
> However, the behaviour I observed is different from what I expected.
> (tested with "cat -h", which produces a short error message)
> LANGUAGE seems to have no effect when I leave LANG unset,
Last I heard, LANGUAGE only effects the workings of some Gnu-ish
software. It's a non-standard frill. LANG is real/portable.
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