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Re: LANG=C not English?



On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:27:50PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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...
...
> 
> Thanks, but how to set them? 

Short answer is not to set any of LC_* as system wide.

Since I like console to use English (UTF-8 so en_US.UTF-8) and X to use
use several locales such as en_US.UTF-8 and ja_JP.UTF-8, I let gdm
change locale.  If you want to run any program under fancy locale, you
can do it by:

$ LANG=somelocale somecommand

See more on 
  http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch02.en.html#langvariable
  http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch09.en.html#thelocale

Osamu


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