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Re: LANG=C not English?



On 02/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:17:10PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>  > On 02/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> wrote:
>
>
> > > What is the output of:
>  > >
>  > >  LANG=C locale
>  > >
>  > >  Do you set LANGUAGES ?
>
>
> Hmm.... LANGUAGE...
>
>
>  >
>  > $ LANG=C locale
>  > LANG=C
>  > LANGUAGE=he_IL:he:en_GB:en
>  > LC_CTYPE="he_IL.utf8"
>  > LC_NUMERIC="he_IL.utf8"
>  > LC_TIME="he_IL.utf8"
>  > LC_COLLATE="he_IL.utf8"
>  > LC_MONETARY="he_IL.utf8"
>  > LC_MESSAGES="he_IL.utf8"
>  > LC_PAPER="he_IL.utf8"
>  > LC_NAME="he_IL.utf8"
>  > LC_ADDRESS="he_IL.utf8"
>  > LC_TELEPHONE="he_IL.utf8"
>  > LC_MEASUREMENT="he_IL.utf8"
>  > LC_IDENTIFICATION="he_IL.utf8"
>  > LC_ALL=he_IL.utf8
>  >
>  > I see. How does one set the locate parameters for LANG=C? And when I
>  > do set them, to what English is C expected to be? Could you post for
>  > me the output of your C locale so that I might set mine to the same
>  > values? Thanks, Tzafrir.
>
>
> tzafrir@frenkel:~$ locale
>  LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
>  LC_CTYPE="he_IL.UTF-8"
>  LC_NUMERIC="he_IL.UTF-8"
>  LC_TIME="he_IL.UTF-8"
>  LC_COLLATE="he_IL.UTF-8"
>  LC_MONETARY="he_IL.UTF-8"
>  LC_MESSAGES="he_IL.UTF-8"
>  LC_PAPER="he_IL.UTF-8"
>  LC_NAME="he_IL.UTF-8"
>  LC_ADDRESS="he_IL.UTF-8"
>  LC_TELEPHONE="he_IL.UTF-8"
>  LC_MEASUREMENT="he_IL.UTF-8"
>  LC_IDENTIFICATION="he_IL.UTF-8"
>  LC_ALL=
>
>  tzafrir@frenkel:~$ LANG=C locale
>  LANG=C
>  LC_CTYPE="C"
>  LC_NUMERIC="C"
>  LC_TIME="C"
>  LC_COLLATE="C"
>  LC_MONETARY="C"
>  LC_MESSAGES="C"
>  LC_PAPER="C"
>  LC_NAME="C"
>  LC_ADDRESS="C"
>  LC_TELEPHONE="C"
>  LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
>  LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
>  LC_ALL=
>
>  tzafrir@frenkel:~$ LC_ALL=C locale
>  LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
>  LC_CTYPE="C"
>  LC_NUMERIC="C"
>  LC_TIME="C"
>  LC_COLLATE="C"
>  LC_MONETARY="C"
>  LC_MESSAGES="C"
>  LC_PAPER="C"
>  LC_NAME="C"
>  LC_ADDRESS="C"
>  LC_TELEPHONE="C"
>  LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
>  LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
>  LC_ALL=C

Thanks, but how to set them? By the way:
feisty@feisty-laptop:~$ LC_ALL=C locale
LANG=he_IL.utf8
LANGUAGE=he_IL:he:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=C

Uff!

Dotan Cohen

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