On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:48:55PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% env - LANG=de_DE cat -h > > cat: Ungültige Option -- h > > ,,cat --help" gibt weitere Informationen. > > > > With just LANG set, LC_MESSAGES and LC_CTYPE are inferred from LANG. > > Sure, this is the well established behavior documented in POSIX.
Completely agreed. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% env - LANGUAGE=de_DE cat -h > > cat: invalid option -- h > > Try `cat --help' for more information. > > > > With just LANGUAGE set, LC_MESSAGES and LC_CTYPE are not inferred > > from LANG, because of the choice I think we need to document. > ^^^^^^^^^ Do you mean: from LANGUAGE? Yes. *blush* the point of giving examples was so that I could be precise, typos are not making this any easier... > > They remain as C. > > Yes, LANGUAGE is only checked to select message catalogs, nothing else. This is also not documented. And it's surprising - to me anyway. The documentation presents it as an extension to LANG. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]