On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:53:07 -0800 (PST)
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > 
> > But Blackbox doesn't like this:
> > 
> > wilbert@obelix:~$ echo $LANG ; echo $LC_ALL
> > nl_NL@euro
> > nl_NL@euro
> > wilbert@obelix:~$ blackbox -help
> > failed to open catalog, using default messages
> > Blackbox 0.62.0pre3 : (c) 2001 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> >                           1997 - 2000 Brad Hughes
> > (etc...)
> > 
> 
> I have never seen that syntax before. When did the '@' symbol become
> part of locale specifications?

Since glibc-2.2. Every european locale (and others as well) has a
@euro variant, to enable typing and displaying the Euro (�) character.
(eg terminals automagically switch to the right fontencoding etc.)

I have to have the @euro variant for Blackbox, to propagate it to the
apps launched by Blackbox.

But one could easily create a symlink nl_NL@euro -> nl_NL in the nls
dir, or strip off any @... part.


I also found out how to install multiple language manual pages! They
should be installed in $prefix/share/man/$locale/manx/ .

E.g. The Dutch manual pages (blackbox and bsetroot) can be installed
to $prefix/share/man/nl/man1/ .

When I have some time I'll try to make a patch against pre4 that does
this.

regards,

-- 
Wilbert Berendsen (http://www.xs4all.nl/~wbsoft/)

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