It should also be noted that there are weirdnesses involved with running 
multiple locales on the same machine.  For example, the 'pargs' command, which 
prints the arguments that were passed to a process when it was started, will 
belch errors when it is running in a locale different than the one it is being 
asked to enumerate the arguments for, even when there are no characters that it 
has to provide escapes for in its output.  I find this more than a little 
annoying.

--Robert

On May 11, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Robert Slover wrote:

> Andreas,
> 
> See the output of 'man -k locale' and the /etc/default/init file (which is 
> symlinked to by /etc/TIMEZONE).
> 
> --Robert
> 
> On May 11, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Andreas Höschler wrote:
> 
>> Hi Lars,
>> 
>>> System wide?
>>> At least on Mac OS X this is a setting to be made per user. It's perfectly 
>>> reasonable to imagine having several users with different locale settings 
>>> on the same machine.
>> 
>> Indeed! I am not talking about the special One-User/One-PC case (-> Mac) but 
>> about the more general case of one big server with lots of cores and a few 
>> dozen thin clients (Sun Rays) connected to it! :-)
>> 
>>>> I had this running on one machine but I had to reinstall the box and 
>>>> haven't documented this configuration detail! :-(
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone with Solaris/GNustep experience?
>>> 
>>> That would be you ;-)
>> 
>> Probably! :-)
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Andreas
>> 
>> 
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