On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:55:12AM +0100, Jaroslaw Swierczynski wrote:
> 2005/11/16, Judd Vinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I'm not sure why you need LC_ALL unless you are explicitly setting other
> > LC_ variables to different values.  The LANG variable will cover all LC_
> > variables unless they were set otherwise.
> 
> I didn't know LANG had influence on LC_ variables. I brought this up
> because after today's initscripts update when I had removed LC_ALL
> from my /etc/profile and left only LOCALE in rc.conf, it broke
> contacts sorting in Kadu (a client for most popular Polish IM system).
> I've just checked locale and all LC_ are set to "pl_PL" except
> LC_COLLATE which is set to "C" and that's why the sorting is broken.
> In that case, could you create a new variable in rc.conf to support
> LC_COLLATE?

LC_COLLATE is used by many utility-level things (eg, the ordering of
/bin/ls output) so I thought it wise not to touch it, in case scripts
ever rely on a certain sorted output.  You're actually the first person
to ever bring up the need to change it.

You can easily override the default Arch setting, though.  It's in
/etc/profile.  Can't miss it.


- J


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