Hi, At Sat, 7 Apr 2001 23:44:04 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With that in mind, I have an open bug ( #40743 ) against man-db, > which asks for its treatment of LANG, LC_*, and LANGUAGE to be changed. I checked the bug and man-db 2.3.17.1-2. I found that this point (the bug has two points, one is variable order and another is support of LANGUAGE variable) is already achieved, by calling setlocale(LC_ALL,""). Well, one exception is in case of different settings for different locale categories (such as LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP LC_MESSAGES=zh_TW.Big5). Though I think such a setting is insane, I will supply a patch to choose LC_MESSAGES category. One more point of the bug report is usage of LANGUAGE. It is a non-standard variable. I thought it specifies LC_MESSAGES locale category with the highest priority. (Next is LC_ALL, then LC_MESSAGES, and the lowest priority is LANG). However, GNU gettext seems to have a bit different implementation. I am asking in an other mailing list. Please wait a bit. > I'm happy to make sure that the patch applies cleanly and still > does what it says it does, Hmm, I failed to apply the #40743 patch to man-db_2.3.17.1-2 (2nd hunk). > Note that man now uses LC_ALL rather than LC_MESSAGES, courtesy > of the patch in #75559 . This is correct. LC_ALL is a variable to specify all locale categories with the highest priority. Other LC_* specify corresponding locale categry in the next priority. LANG specifies all locale categories with the lowest priority. Thus, for example, LC_MESSAGES category is determined by LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, and LANG variables as I wrote above. This is the standardized behavior. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://surfchem0.riken.go.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
