Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:32:38 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7=2C_Andrey_Chernov?= <ache@nagual.ru> To: davidn@blaze.net.au Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Confused about locale Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961223092559.656A-100000@nagual.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961223171022.18389L-100000@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au>
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On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, David Nugent wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, [KOI8-R] Андрей Чернов, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > >> > I dislike idea of "system default" locale, I like idea of "user > >> > default" locale instead! > >> > >> Ok. There will be a way of achieving this shortly via login.conf. > > > >Not so quick, it will be nice if user can change his preferences > >easily. > > The user can, by overriding the standard environment variables in > his or her .login or .profile, just as they do now. The only > thing the lang= and charset= entries in the login class affects > are the defaults set by login in the user's environment. Editing > startup files is no more difficult than running, say, chpass et > al. Excepting one small thing: command interpreter itself started with system locale, not user defined one and user can change it only later (if ever can!). Shell f.e. understand on-the-fly locale changes only very recently (my fix). It is why I insist on locale setting _prior_ to command interpreter start, i.e. at login stage. > >> The last part is more difficult. But the field is already there > >> in "class". > > > >What is difficult here? As man says "class" is pointer to termcap-style > >attributes. Do you mean that they must be unchangeable by user? > > Not at all. Only that "class" is a pointer to /many/ parameters > that (1) set administrative restrictions and (2) sets up the > *default* login environment for a set of users. For a shell > account, most of the environment setup remains changeable, just > as it is now. Why not use "tc=" modifier to point to default class? I.e. example entry will looks like: la=ru_SU.KOI8-R:ch=KOI8-R:tc=def_class -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.ru> http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/
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