Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:32:24 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2 Message-ID: <200002171832.TAA20541@Magelan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <7327.950809955@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On 17 Feb, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
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>> o Finally, again, it seems to me that the skeleton .cshrc, .profile,
>> etc. files that are used for accounts creating during install should have the
>> following variables set:
>>
>> setenv LC_ALL en_US.ISO_8859-1
>> setenv LC_CTYPE en_US.ISO_8859-1
>> setenv LANG en_US.ISO_8859-1
>
> This is a question for the I18N folks; I don't even try to puzzle out
> the various quirks of locale settings these days. :)
IMHO sysinstall or motd should print a little note about the possibility
to set those variables, so Jordan hasn't to mess with them (e.g. for
de_DE one wants to add LC_NUMERIC=C because every lazy script/program
which asks for floats and processes them would break [123.4 -> 123,4]).
^ ^
Bye,
Alexander.
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