On 2010-09-14 17:31:49 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > From what I understand both LC_CTYPE and LC_MESSAGES should not be set > to the "C" locale (or "POSIX" one). It seems the goal is to make sure > the translated messages could be displayed correctly, which would not be > the case otherwise.
I don't think this is the reason since fr_FR may need UTF-8 or ISO-8859-15 to be displayed correctly, while I get French messages in ISO-8859-1 locales. And there's the same display problem with: LC_MESSAGES=zh_CN LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 cp thus without LANGUAGE at all. IMHO, the "C" locale is checked mainly for programs that run entirely under C locales (e.g. LC_ALL=C) for portable behavior. But the test chosen by the glibc has drawbacks. Note: some software need UTF-8 locales to behave correctly thus requiring something like LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8, so the C locale test isn't even the right one. -- 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]
