Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote on 2001-04-27 13:14 UTC:
> > LANGUAGE has an influence only on gettext. If you want to influence
> > gettext() and nl_langinfo(YESEXPR), use LC_MESSAGES:
> >
> > LANG=fr_FR LC_MESSAGES=de_DE
>
> But the good thing about LANGUAGES is that it lets you specify a list
> of languages. LC_MESSAGES doesn't, as far as I know. Could YESEXPR be
> made to follow LANGUAGES without breaking some standard or convention?
Why can't we just scrap LANGUAGES entirely and support instead priority
lists of locales in all of LANG and LC_*? LANGUAGES seems highly
redundant, difficult to justify, and a wonderful source of future
configuration mistakes.
Markus
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