Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 01:49:09 +1100 From: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: ache@nagual.ru Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Confused about locale Message-ID: <Mutt.19961222014909.davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961221163538.338A-100000@nagual.ru>; from ????????????????????????????? on Dec 21, 1996 16:38:38 %2B0300 References: <199612210911.LAA00719@grackle.grondar.za> <Pine.BSF.3.95.961221163538.338A-100000@nagual.ru>
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> > LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 > > Wrong name, must be en_US.ISO_8859-1 On the subject of locale, in an email discussion Joerg and I were having a couple of weeks back, the idea of a "system default" locale was raised (which, currently, FreeBSD does not have). I thought a simple solution may be a symlink or two in /etc (eg. /etc/LANG and /etc/NLS) pointing to the correct location under /usr/share/locale and /usr/share/nls may be the easiest way this could be implemented. These may be overridden by using the appropriate environment variables, but are the default when none is set (unlike now, where 'ascii' and 'C' are always the default). I think this would create a much better default environment for the system all 'round. I haven't yet looked into what changes may be involved, but they should be small and confined entirely (afaik) to libc. Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freefall.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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