My apologies. They are described in the *locale(7)* page. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/
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