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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:03:37 +0200
From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To: Gregory Nou <gregorynou@altern.org>
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Subject: Re: Problem with locale settings
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:58:05PM +0200, Gregory Nou wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm trying to understand a problem of locale, but I definitely can't 
> solve it on my own.
> I use zsh. I've set LC_ALL and LANG to fr_FR.
> 
> 19:39 greg@nou /etc% export | grep fr_FR
> LANG=fr_FR
> LC_ALL=fr_FR
>
[...]

cause, as described in the Handbook, locale names are following the
LanguageCode_CountryCode.Encoding scheme.
Please read
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html
or
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html

Marc