From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 22 18:17:55 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA04468 for current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 18:17:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [193.125.152.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA04454 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 18:17:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA05063 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Mon, 23 Dec 1996 05:05:37 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Mon, 23 Dec 96 05:05:36 +0300 Received: from localhost (nagual.ru [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.ru (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id EAA01342; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 04:46:23 +0300 (MSK) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 04:46:23 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7=2C_Andrey_Chernov?= To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: FreeBSD-current users Subject: Re: sytem's default locale In-Reply-To: <199612211843.TAA11963@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As [?KOI8-R?] wrote: > > > It is no purpose to keep "system default" locale, all daemons must run > > at standard "C" locale. > > While i basically agree: Why that? Suppose we had a bunch of language > catalogs (like AIX), and our daemons would understand where to use > setlocale() and where not (unlike AIX :). There's IMHO no reason why > a particular system administrator should not express his wish to see > the syslog messages in his language -- after all, he is supposed to > read them. I not disagree in general, I mean _existen_ daemons. Do you try to login to "internationalized" ftpd f.e.? It is lot of fun when its locale have nothing common with your environment. Usualy daemos are the doors to the outer world, so they must not be language-dependend. While syslog messages can be... (or not?) F.e. you can't send your i18n'ed syslog messages to international discussion forum, if something is wrong happens with your daemon. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/