From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 06:03:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8CA16A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:03:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.dkm.cz (smtp.dkm.cz [62.24.64.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91C0B43D3F for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:03:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martinkov@pobox.sk) Received: (qmail 76265 invoked by uid 0); 13 Mar 2005 06:03:45 -0000 Received: from r4ac63.chello.upc.cz (HELO ?84.42.156.63?) (84.42.156.63) by smtp.dkm.cz with SMTP; 13 Mar 2005 06:03:45 -0000 Message-ID: <4233D7C6.8080202@pobox.sk> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 07:03:50 +0100 From: martinko User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050220 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: setting LC_* in ~/.local_conf does not work X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:03:48 -0000 hello, in handbook chapter 18.3.4.1.1.1 is an example of setting each of LC_* variables manually. this does not work. i tried to set LANG and then change some LCs, later i tried to set LC_ALL only, but nothing happened. i found that LCs can be set only via setenv -- this is an example which works: me:\ :charset=ISO-8859-2:\ :lang=sk_SK.ISO8859-2:\ :setenv=LC_MESSAGES=C,LC_MONETARY=C,LC_NUMERIC=C,LC_TIME=C: my goal was to make system recognize and handle national characters but to behave as "usual". LANG var must be set otherwise my keymap (sk.iso2.kbd) does not work. (why?) regards, martin