>> 
>> 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 patched my copy to strip off the @.  Will release one more pre in a day or so.
> 
> 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.
> 

Keen.  I was sent Slovenian man pages and nls files Sunday.  Blackbox now
supports *12* languages.  Only major languages were are missing are German and
Chinese.

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