On 2010-09-14 15:42:15 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > It's most probably a documentation issue, given this behaviour is > actually wanted, according to this changelog entry: > > | 2001-01-02 Ulrich Drepper <[email protected]> > | > | * intl/dcigettext.c (guess_category_value): Rewrite so that LANGUAGE > | value is ignored if the selected locale is the C locale. > > and this NEWS entry: > > | Version 2.2.1 > | > | * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is > | changed from the default "C" locale.
I have: ypig:~> locale LANG=POSIX LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME=en_DK LC_COLLATE=POSIX LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= This is not the "C" locale. Even though POSIX and C could be regarded as equivalent, there are still LC_CTYPE and LC_TIME, which are not in the C/POSIX locale. Alternatively, to avoid the problem I mentioned, the language specified by LC_MESSAGES should be prepended to $LANGUAGE to get the list of languages, so that a software that doesn't know $LANGUAGE wouldn't yield surprising behavior if it sets LC_MESSAGES to some language like en_US. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
