Re: LANG ?

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Sat Dec 28 2002 - 16:09:08 EST

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On ven, 2002-12-27 at 17:39, Bernard Lambey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Happy New Year for all!
>
> There is something enough strange !
> Everywhere you say :
> << LANG="fr-FR" >>
> If I adopt that, my french version becomes an english version.
> When I do "set", I have all variables, among them I find :
> << LANG="fr_FR" >>
> ... and with that I obtain again my french version!
> What have I to do ?

The problem is that the ISO syntax to specify langage (the one we use
everywhere) is not used by the libc for the LANG and other locale
specification. change the '-' (dash) by a '_' (underscore) when
specifying language in environment variable. I'm tempted to say "blame
POSIX", but I'm not sure of that.

Hub

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