On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 07:02:01PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote: > I have a question to the list: What documentation should I read to > understand the environment variable $LANGUAGE,
info libc -> Message Translation -> The Uniform approach -> Message catalogs with gettext -> Using gettextized software > and it's relationship with the ordinary locale variables ($LANG, > $LC_*, and $LC_ALL)? If set, LANGUAGE has higher priority than LANG, LC_MESSAGES and even LC_ALL variable, but character *encoding* is still taken from LC_CTYPE. E.g. this means that if you have locales en_GB.ISO-8859-1 and zh_CN.UTF-8 and set your environment like LANG=en_GB LANGUAGE=zh_CN:en_GB then you will not see correct Chinese characters, because in LC_CTYPE there is ISO-8859-1 encoding, but you want to display zh_CN in UTF-8. So the best usage would be to use only locales with the same encoding, preferably UTF-8. -- Miroslav Kure -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
