LANG and LANGUAGE certainly *are* described in the upstream locale(5) page....
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Simon Paillard <spaill...@debian.org> wrote: > Control: -1 retitle locale(5) should describe LANG and LANGUAGE > > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 04:18:03PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: >> Package: manpages >> Version: 3.23 >> >> The man page for `locale(1)` do not describe the LANG and LANGUAGE >> environment variables. > > Note locale(1) is not from manpages package: > libc-bin: /usr/share/man/man1/locale.1.gz > >> `environ(7)` describes only LANG and refers to `locale(5)` for further >> explaination. `locale(5)` do not describe neither LANG or LANGUAGE. >> >> Both LANG and LANGUAGE are described in LSB 4.0, although not in depth. >> >> Shouldn't the meaning and the format of LANG and LANGUAGE and the >> difference between these two environment variables be explained in >> `locale` manpages? > > > -- > Simon Paillard > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
