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Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'



Surachai Locharoen wrote:

> I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is
> set to laguage which exist in the real world such as en, th, fr.

It means the default language - the one the application is actually
written in. In practice this is usually English, but one could write an
application in French (for example), and then translate it to English.
In that case setting 'LANG=C' would indicate that an application should
display messages in French.



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