On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 14:28 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > It uses yelp - the Gnome help system. What happens if you run > > yelp help:evolution > > from a command line?
yelp was not installed. When I installed 12.3, I chose the KDE desktop. Evolution had to be installed after the fact. The dependencies list did not include yelp. I have filed a bug report 818977 Thanks > > > > I'm curious about the naming of that folder, how on earth did it end up > > as 'C'? > > It's historic. From the net somewhere... > > In the C programming language, the locale name C “specifies the > minimal environment for C translation” (C99 §7.11.1.1; the > principle has been the same since at least the 1980s). As most > operating systems are written in C, especially the unix-inspired > ones where locales are set through the LANG and LC_xxx > environment variables, C ends up being the name of a “safe” > locale everywhere. > > POSIX specifies that both C and POSIX must be valid locale > names, with the same neutral settings. > > So 'C' is from the 'C' language. The C locale basically comes down to > 7-bit ASCII. > > P. > THANK YOU! It now makes sense. Well, it did before, I just didn't know it. Bart _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
