On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:33:44AM +0100, Miroslav Kure wrote: > 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. > [example snipped] > > So the best usage would be to use only locales with the same encoding, > preferably UTF-8.
Thanks for the pointer and explanations, it's very helpful. My main problem is that I use en_US.UTF-8 locale and prefer English interfaces. However occasionally I need to run programs in LC_MESSAGES=zh_CN to see the translation results (I assume LC_MESSAGES=zh_CN.UTF-8 has the same effect, as the encoding part doesn't matter). I think setting LANGUAGE to empty serves me best. :-) Ming 2005.11.05 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
