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On 2/9/07, Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Florent Thoumie wrote:
> > Florent Thoumie wrote:
> >> Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> >>> I need to run different services in different locales
> >>> (basically LANG/LC_ALL changed). Before I look at how
> >>> to implement it, is there any objection to
> >>> <name>_locale presetting the two variables to its
> >>> value (and possibly some error-checking via locale(1)?
> >>>
> >>> As for a site-wide default, I currently have "export
> >>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8" in my rc.conf. Should we introduce
> >>> a general "locale" variable for this?
> >> Makes sense to me. Have a look at *_nice variable for example.
> >
> > Thinking about it, maybe something like <name>_env would be better
> > (cause more generic). Of course you wouldn't be able to do error
> > checking but I'm not sure it's so useful anyway.
>
> Any update on that, do you need help or something?

I solved my immediate problem through hacks even
before posting here, so a good implementation is
not exactly at the top of my todo list. I'll be
happy to see it done by someone else, otherwise
I'll get to it myself later.