Re: What are my locale settings, for non-terminal apps?

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

On 4 May 2010 01:20, Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> wrote:
> On 5/3/2010 4:39 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>> I need to have separate locale settings for my terminal apps, so I
>> configure that in .bash_profile. I assume that my desktop environment
>> is using my locale settings from .profile but I'd like to confirm what
>> those settings are. How can I get the output of locale _not_ from a
>> terminal (which will source .bash_profile and thus be incorrect)?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> I think locale is the same for terminal and non-terminal apps, except you
> can set locale separately for each separate environment.
>
>
> echo $LC
> echo $LC_MESSAGES
> echo $LC_CTYPE
> echo $LC_COLLATE
> echo $LC_TIME
> echo $LC_MONETARY
> echo $LC_NUMERIC
> echo $LC_PAPER
> echo $LC_NAME
> echo $LC_ADDRESS
> echo $LC_TELEPHONE
> echo $LC_MEASUREMENT
> echo $LC_ALL
>
> (unset LC_ALL if you need different locales for different things)
>
> echo $LOCALE
> echo $LANG
> echo $GDM_LANG
>
>
>
>
> In C:
>
>
> #include <locale.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> //
> // not tested
> //
>
> char *some_locale="C";
> if setlocale(LC_MESSAGES,some_locale)
>   printf ("messages locale set to %s\n", some_locale);
> else
>   prinf ("setlocale failed\n");
> // .
> // .
> // .
>
>
> Off the top of my head...
>
> MAA
>
>

Thanks, Mark. I'm going to give that a shot in Python, a language that
I'd like to learn anyway.


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