#11193: Locale settings in /etc/profile.d/i18n.sh and /etc/locale.conf
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Reporter: xry111 | Owner: renodr
Type: task | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.4
Component: BOOK | Version: systemd
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by dj@…):
This is overkill for defaults IMO. I would simply do the equivalent of.
/etc/locale.conf && export LANG for systemd. The long export line is
likely unneeded if $LC_ALL==$LANG. I can not see a use case for them
differing for system use, and I'd likely expect that LC_ALL=$LANG for the
system default, but this may be biased as I am only familiar with Germanic
and Romance languages (and fluently, only US English at that). If systemd
itself can make use of these additional values, and they should differ,
then this should be covered in LFS-systemd, else on this page before the
commands to create the file. A note explaining that you might want to
export additional variables before the commands would be probably be best
with the existing links to locale issues.
Additionally, this is only used by users who do not have these values set
in ~/.bash{_profile,rc} (or the equivalent for dash or zsh or .profile).
Again, I do think a comment is warranted to make it more clear what is
expected. Though do as you please on your personal systems, it should
probably be considered bad practice to source /etc/locale.conf for the
user's .profile on a multilingual system (conversely, it is completely
acceptable to use the same values in /etc/skel as defaults if the expected
users are to be of common language).
I'm going to do just the systemd separation and wait for more input on the
above...specifically for use cases where the individual LC* variables need
to differ. Xi (or anybody outside of my bias really), any further input to
assist in combating my own ignorance WRT other locales would be greatly
appreciated. :-)
For reference:
{{{
dj@LFSDT1 [ ~ ]$ echo $LC_ALL
dj@LFSDT1 [ ~ ]$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
dj@LFSDT1 [ ~ ]$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
dj@LFSDT1 [ ~ ]$
}}}
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