On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:13:37PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote: > as such via http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/. Hope this helped ... :) > > "Thomas E. Dickey" wrote on 2003-03-05 10:31 UTC: > > isn't $LANG a GNU-specific variable? > > LANG is defined by both POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1) and ISO C. > > The POSIX definition of the i18n environment variables is crucial > reading for anyone with an interest in locales: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_02 > > LANGUAGE is a GNU extension in which a priority list of locales can be > specified, separated by colons. It is an alternative to the LC_MESSAGES > defined by POSIX and only evaluated if an application uses gettext. > Read the Locales chapter in "info libc" for details.
thanks for the correction (too early to recall it properly). -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
