Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'
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Linas Žvirblis wrote:
> 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.
I thought C meant "plain *old* ASCII encoding, like what was used on
the PDP computers that C was written on".
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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