#11193: Locale settings in /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh and /etc/locale.conf
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Reporter: xry111 | Owner: blfs-book
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.4
Component: BOOK | Version: systemd
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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From http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-
dev/2018-September/034916.html:
> On 09/26/2018 09:19 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote:
>> In LFS systemd book section 7.7 we create /etc/locale.conf as locale
>> configuation file. But, in BLFS systemd book Chapter 3 section "The
>> Bash Startup Files" we create /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh which sets up the
>> locale for bash. Their settings may be inconsistent and confuse the
>> users (I was confused several times).
>>
>> We should add a note about this issue in LFS or BLFS book. Now I use
>> an i18n.sh reading /etc/locale.conf (copied from Arch :) to make the
>> settings consistent.
>
> I suppose that we could change /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh to:
>
> if [ -f /etc/locale.conf ]; then
> source /etc/locale.conf
> else
> export LANG=<ll>_<CC>.<charmap><@modifiers>
> fi
>
> We may need to update ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc also.
>
> I've used 'source' above to make it clear, but for ~/.profile and
> i18n.sh is should probably be the dot (.) operator.
>
> -- Bruce
The locale variables need to be exported:
{{{
# Begin /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh
if [ -s /etc/locale.conf ]; then
. /etc/locale.conf
else
LANG=<ll>_<CC>.<charmap><@modifiers>
fi
export LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY
export LC_MESSAGES LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE
export LC_MEASUREMENT LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL
# End /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh
}}}
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