On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:42:35AM +0100, Miroslav Kure wrote: > Hi, > > I got this report about weird behaviour of locales: > > After the fresh install of Sarge in Czech language you end up with > system where (almost) everything is localised to Czech and you can > read/write iso-8859-2 characters. > > % cat /etc/environment > LANGUAGE="cs_CZ:cs:en_GB:en" > LANG=cs_CZ > > Now the problem is when you switch the LANG to english, e.g. > export LANG=en_GB > (of course en_GB being generated with dpkg-reconfigure locales), > it still speaks in Czech, but iso-8859-2 specific characters are > messed, because en_GB of course uses iso-8859-1 charset. > > You have to either unset LANGUAGE or remember to set it to the same > value as LANG (e.g. export LANGUAGE="en_GB"). > > The question is, what is this variable for?
It gives GNU gettext an ordered list of languages which should be tried when looking for translated messages. > In woody and before, where I had to setup the environment manually, > I didn't use LANGUAGE variable and everything was working ok. > man locale doesn't talk about this variable either. It is documented in libc info pages. You cannot mix encodings, so you should switch to UTF-8: LANGUAGE="cs_CZ:en_GB" LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8 Note that this LANGUAGE setting is equivalent to yours, you can run e.g. "strace ls --help" and see in which order catalogs are looked for. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
